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Playwright
Oscar Wilde
Performance Dates
February 22, 1935
Creative Team
Director.............................................J. F. Smith
Assistant Directors...........................Woodrow Purdy and Ruth Jackson
Business Manager............................Foster Elliot
Properties.........................................Gertrude VanSickle, Anne Brehm, and Jane Burdge
Electrician and Stage Managers.......Robert Funk and Paul Freeman
Synopsis
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde.
The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughter's marriage.
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Disciplines
Acting | Dance | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
Otterbein Theatre, Performing Arts, College Theater
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University, "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1935). 1907-1958 Productions. 47.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_1907-1958/47