‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ plays on Sedona screen

The Sedona International Film Festival continues to present the season of Oscar Wilde productions from London’s Vaudeville Theatre. The series continues with “Lady Windermere’s Fan” showing in Sedona on Sunday, July 22, at 4 p.m. on screen at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre.

A new production of Oscar Wilde’s social comedy “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” directed by writer, actor and director Kathy Burke, brings together a comedic cast including the Olivier Awardwinning actress Samantha Spiro as Mrs. Erlynne, Kevin Bishop as Lord Darlington and Jennifer Saunders as the Duchess of Berwick, making her return to the West End stage for the first time in more than 20 years.

This is the second play from the Oscar Wilde season, a yearlong celebration of the Victorian playwright staged by Classic Spring, a theater company led by Dominic Dromgoole, former artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe.

It is the day of Lady Windermere’s birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Darlington plants a seed of suspicion. Is her husband having an affair? And will the other woman really attend the party?

First performed in 1892, “Lady Windermere’s Fan” explores the ambiguity of upper class morality and the fragile position of women in society in the late Victorian era in one of Wilde’s most popular plays.

Other remaining titles in the Oscar Wilde season that will play in Sedona include “An Ideal Husband” on Sunday, Aug. 19, and “The Importance of Being Earnest” on Sunday, Jan. 6.

Oscar Wilde’s “Lady Windermere’s Fan” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Sunday, July 22, at 4 p.m. Tickets are $15, or $12.50 for Film Festival members. Tickets are available in advance at the Sedona International Film Festival office, by calling 282-1177 or online at SedonaFilmFestival.org. The theater and film festival office are at 2030 W. SR 89A in West Sedona