Lady Windermere’s Fan

Summary: 1972 BBC production of Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde.
Theatre play: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Play About a Good Woman by Oscar Wilde [more information]
Play synopsis: This four-act comedy ‘concerns Lady Windermere, who discovers that her husband may be having an affair with another woman. She confronts her husband but he instead invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife’s birthday ball. Angered by her husband’s unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere leaves 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 in order to save her daughter’s marriage.' Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Windermere%27s_Fan.
Production history: First produced 22 February 1892 at the St James’s Theatre in London.
Date of transmission: Monday 15 May 1972
Time: 8.15-9.55pm
Series: Play of the Month
Channel: BBC1
Production company: BBC

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