Kate Unwin An Ideal
Husband
Act One
After the
opening sequence the first painting flew in, At The Moulin Rogue, which
was painted by Toulouse-Lautrec at the time An Ideal Husband was
written in 1895. Oscar Wilde’s face is painted in on the right. Oscar Wilde
wrote the following in his essay The House Beautiful –“There can be no
nobler influence in a room than a marble Venus of Milo: in the presence of an
image so pure, no tongue would dare to talk scandal” (which hardly applies in
the case of this play). I had a three-metre high Venus De Milo carved out of
polystyrene (made by Fiona Viccars) which also flew in during the opening
sequence.