Lady Windermere’s Fan

The Mainstage Series

Tongues wag when the tarnished Mrs. Erlynne returns to town, but it’s Lady Windermere who is most scandalized: she suspects her new husband of having an affair with this woman of ill-repute. When she decides to strike back at him with her own unfaithfulness, an unlikely rescuer saves her from the deed and its damage to her reputation. Newly re-conceived by director Alan Stanford, Oscar Wilde’s comic masterpiece time-travels to the 1940’s, where the consequences for breaking the rules of high society are still considerable.

Adapted and Directed by Alan Stanford
Starring Nike Doukas as Mrs. Erlynne

July 11-27

The Charity Randall Theatre inside the Stephen Foster Memorial, 4301 Forbes Avenue, Oakland

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"Stanford directs a masterly interpretation of Wilde's wit, and his ability to attack the serious with a mix of folly and frivolity. Hypocrisy is the glue that holds Society together. "Goodness" can triumph, while "Evil" hies off to the Continent to enjoy itself. And Mother Love conquers all."

Michelle Pilecki, City Paper

"The result is a polished, even elegant entertainment with a touching heart. This heart is implicit in Wilde, where a hint of impending personal tragedy sharpens the gay (in both senses) humor and undercurrent of moral discontent with the hypocrisy of conventional society."

Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"What make the production deliciously entertaining are older, wiser, more cynical or worldly wise characters and the experienced actors who portray them... Nike Doukas's Mrs. Erlynne lives up to her description as “the edition of a deluxe of a French novel.” She's an intriguing, attractive, guilty pleasure, yet a woman possessed of a brain and abundant courage...Helena Ruoti turns in an entertaining performance as the forbidding Duchess of Berwick...Martin Giles turns in a sympathetic, yet abundantly humorous, performance as Lord Augustus Lorton, Mrs. Erlynne's most adoring suitor."

Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune review