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Dennis Altman, VC Fellow LaTrobe University, La Trobe University

La Boite Theatre gives us a rollicking, queer and very Australian adaptation of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband

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Review: An Ideal Husband, directed by Bridget Boyle

An Ideal Husband was first performed in January 1895. Less than two months later Lord Queenberry left his infamous card accusing Wilde of “posing as a sodomite”, which led to Wilde suing for criminal libel – and then being arrested and imprisoned.

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