I love spring, it means that many established Shakespeare festivals are beginning to rehearse for the summer and fall season. Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde plays are another great escape. Their light comedy and wit about serious subject matters, elaborate costumes and slower pacing are a nice change from the smash and awe blockbusters that fill the screens during the year.
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright who was the first person to be awarded for both the Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar. He didn't truly establish his name as a playwright until his 40s, and wrote sixty-three plays during his career. Many of his writings dealt with social problems, education, marriage, religion government and class privilege.
Pygmalion (My Fair Lady is based on this play)
Candida
Man and Superman
Doctor's Dilemma
Oscar Wilde another Irish writer and poet is famously known for his biting wit and especially his personal life. One of the most celebrated talents during the Victorian era, his social satires have remained as some of the most widely performed plays in history. His only novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray has been adapted to screen as well.
Importance of Being Earnest
A Woman of No Importance
An Ideal Husband (1999 version here)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1985 version link
here)
Never got a chance to see the film in the theatres, how surprised I was to find it online... for now. Acting dynasties will certainly be dominant forty years from now. Jeremy Irons' son, Max Irons plays Lucius in a small role (his "breakthru role" said to be The Girl with Red Riding hood opposite Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, and Julie Christie).
