An Ideal Husband: in conversation with director Emma Merchant

Politicians’ corrupt pasts coming back to haunt them. Blackmailing secrets among the rich and elite of London’s high society. Societal demand for public perfection at all costs. No, this isn’t the latest scandal from Downing Street.  It is the plot of Oscar Wilde’s razor sharp comedy of manners, An Ideal Husband, which opens to a sold out audience at Wokingham Theatre next week. “What a wonderfully complex play An Ideal Husband is,” says the play’s director, Emma Merchant. “I don’t think I had realised what a huge production this would be when I took on the project. At first sight i

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