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Seeing a rendition of this on Friday at the Alley Theatre in Houston. The recent West End production with Ncuti Gatwa, Hugh Skinner, and Eliza Scanlon is available to watch for free for one more day on the National Theatre’s YouTube page. HIGHLY recommend.

"The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don’t like that. It makes men so very attractive."

he really was living in the 21st century

i think gwendolyn and cecily should kiss on the mouth

this play is like hysterically anti-marriage it rocks

"To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution."
what in the god damn hell is this play about

"Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don’t try it. You should leave that to people who haven’t been at a University. They do it so well in the daily papers."

i like when you can tell wilde was just beefing

ALGERNON
Come, old boy, you had much better have the thing out at once.

JACK
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist.

when the national theatre uploads all 3 hours of their production… you know what’s up 🙂‍↕️