Post by tonyloco on Apr 20, 2019 22:26:37 GMT
I quite enjoyed the programme about Oscar Wilde on BBC2 tonight but I thought the acting by the women in the scenes from the plays was very disappointing. The men just about scraped by but the women were underwhelming to say the least and seemed too lightweight to convince in the strong characters they were portraying like Mrs Erlynne and Lady Windemere. Was this just me being hard to please and living in the past when stage actresses gave bigger and more powerful performances? The only actresses mentioned on the internet are Claire Skinner and Anna Chancellor, whose Lady Bracknell seemed to me to be too young although she did find the laughs in the famous dialogue about the handbag.
The bit I enjoyed most was the scene from Salome (done in English) which of course was what Richard Strauss used in a German translation for the libretto of his famous opera.
I am talking only about the extracts from the plays and not the presentation of Wilde himself, which I thought was very well done by the various actors and writers.
What did other people think?