For several years, Jorge Andrade wanted to stage Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman – a satire on Victorian moralism. Afterall, it was the first professional play he did as a performer. The play is a classic of Western dramaturgy that has been staged hundreds of times, and somehow he didn’t feel like adding yet another version. In 2013, after listening to a radio version of the play, Jorge thought: what if instead of making up a totally brand new version he just used that version he had just listened to? What if all the characters he couldn’t see in that version were all dressed as Lady Windermere? And what if the text were to use as a soundtrack for the show? A show where the performers move according to the musicality of what they say, lip-sync, act over the recording, get together to play the same character, sing and perform choreographies? And, most important, what if he invited choreographer Miguel Pereira to join in?

Wilde is an appropriation of Lady Windermere’s Fan produced by BBC Radio 7. It is a show  in which the performative formal aspects acquire a progressive freedom as the libertarian narrative unfolds.

direction Jorge Andrade and Miguel Pereira ‧ from Oscar Wilde ‧ with Carla Bolito / Cecília Matos Manuel, Joana Bárcia / Margarida Martins, Jorge Andrade, Miguel Pereira, Nuno Lucas, Tiago Barbosa and Valentina Parlato / Maria Matos ‧ set design José Capela ‧ costumes José Capela, with execution by Eduarda Carepa ‧ light Daniel Worm d’Assumpção ‧ soundtrack Jari Marjamäki ‧ stage photography José Carlos Duarte ‧ production Cátia Mateus (O Rumo do Fumo) and Manuel Poças (mala voadora) ‧ coproduction mala voadora, O Rumo do Fumo, Culturgest and Teatro Viriato ‧ residencies Fórum Dança, alkantara and Negócio (ZDB) ‧ support Fundação Oriente ‧

datasdates

March 22 to 23, 2013 ‧ Culturgest (Lisbon)

March 27, 2013 ‧ Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro)

April 6, 2013 ‧ Teatro Viriato (Viseu)

May 24, 2013 ‧ Theatro Circo (Braga)

March 29 to 30, 2019 ‧ Théâtre National du Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

May 11, 2019 ‧ Café-Teatro do Teatro Campo Alegre (Porto - included in DDD+FITEI festivals)

September 20 and 21, 2024 ‧ ACT Shanghai International Theatre Festival (Shanghai, China)