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An Ideal Husband review – Oscar Wilde’s comedy gets the gleefully camp glow-up it deserves

Lyric Hammersmith, London
The dissolute aristocrats from 1895 remain sharply funny, and bitingly relevant, in this flamboyant new spin

Oscar Wilde’s comedy was billed as a “play of modern life” when it premiered at the Haymarket theatre in London in 1895. It is just as modern now in its central, chiming theme: the clandestine corruptions of outwardly squeaky-clean members of parliament.

Sir Robert Chiltern (Chiké Okonkwo) is the apparently upstanding minister and “ideal husband” to Lady Chiltern (Tamara Lawrance) but his past bears the illicit selling of a cabinet secret to a baron. This threatens to ruin him if he does not appease the blackmailing Mrs Cheveley (Aurora Perrineau).

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May 15, 2026 Theatre Stage Culture

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