An Ideal Husband, the FAC's most attended play in ten years!

By Oscar Wilde

In this modernization of a 19th Century favorite, the timeless question remains, what makes an ideal husband? Set in modern London, this dazzling blend of farce and morality revolves around the lives of two men: a successful political figure and his philandering friend. One has a secret scandal in his past.

Venomous Wit, Vicious Blackmail ... How Ideal!

“Sooner or later, we shall all have to pay for what we do,” notes Wilde, but “no one should be entirely judged by their past.”Julian Bucknall, the play’s director, has a particular affection for Wilde's plays ever since his first gig as an actor in the Colorado Springs was Algy in The Importance of Being Earnest. Bucknall, who has appeared on the SaGaJi Theatre stage in Anything Goes and A Christmas Carol, last directed for the FAC in 1995, the show, Cabaret, won the Gazette's Readers Choice Award for Best Musical.

"An Ideal Husband is a gem of a play, a heady mix of drama and wit," said Bucknall. "A seemingly unsolvable dilemma, strong characters, epigrams flying about like leaves in a hurricane. Capturing all that in a modern production is going to be very challenging for the cast, yet extremely rewarding for the audience."

The cast features Max Ferguson (Viscount Goring), Jeremy Joynt (Sir Robert Chiltern), Becca Rothstein (Mabel Chiltern), Amy Haines (Mrs. Cheveley) and Kara Whitney (Lady Chiltern).

Ferguson has been seen recently in the Springs Ensemble Theater’s production of Talk Radio and Glengerry Glen Ross. Joynt, who has a background in comedy improvisation, makes his SaGāJi Theatre debut with An Ideal Husband. Rothstein, a junior at Cheyenne Mountain High School, is a FAC’s Youth Repertory Theatre alum. Haines has played Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire and Maggie in a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

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