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Lady Windermere's Fan

  • Maudslay State Park 76 Curzon Mill Road Newburyport, MA, 01950 United States (map)

By Oscar Wilde | Directed by Rory Pelsue

One of Oscar Wilde’s parlor comedies, Lady Windermere’s Fan is a masterful examination of reputation, love, and deceit. Lady Windermere suspects her husband of infidelity—and in trying to discover the truth, only more secrets are revealed. Wilde’s play is bitingly funny, tenderly kind, and teaches us that “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Rory Pelsue is a director of new and classic plays, operas, musicals, and live-stream performances. He is best known for directing the live-stream productions of This American Wife and Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Drama League Nominee Circle Jerk (and its in-person remount at the Connelly Theater) with Fake Friends, where he serves as Resident Director.
Originally from Newburyport, Massachusetts, Rory received his MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama, where he received the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize for directing. At Yale, Rory directed Passion , Tent Revival, Othello , Bluebeard's Wife, The Apple Tree, And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens, Antony + Cleopatra and Mies Julie.

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Maudslay State Park, 76 Curzon Mill Road, Newburyport, MA, 01950
Park is $5 for MA plates, $20 for out of state vehicles. Follow the flags from the parking lot and allow for a ten minute stroll to the performance site.

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