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Nathaniel Parker plays Chiltern as a man aggressively unapologetic for his youthful ambition but faintly comic in his later adoption of a high moral tone. One of the play’s chief delights … Freddie and Edward Fox. Corruption, Wilde implies, is inescapable in a money-mad society. While Wilde doesn’t exonerate his hero, who is later blackmailed by the unscrupulous Mrs Cheveley, he allows Chiltern to defend his actions by saying: “Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons” – which in this case was the worship of wealth. Sir Robert Chiltern, a rising politician, is haunted by the fact that, as a young man, he sold state secrets for private profit. One key idea, as George Bernard Shaw understood in his 1895 review, is Wilde’s assertion of a robust individuality against a mechanical idealism. Jonathan Church’s stylish revival reminds us Wilde explores serious issues under the epigrammatic surface. R ailing against fashionable society’s overpopulation, one of Oscar Wilde’s aristocratic chatterboxes cries: “Really, someone should arrange a proper scheme of assisted emigration.” Although the line is devoid of racial overtones, it is one of many that strike home in this ever-topical play. When does it happen? Who will believe them? And how do you prepare for the end of the world when it feels like your life is just getting started? But time is ticking down, and as Ellis tries to help Hannah decipher the details of her doomsday premonition, their search for answers only raises more questions. Despite Ellis’s anxiety-about what others think of her, about what she’s doing wrong, about the safety of her loved ones-the two girls become friends. After all, Ellis is scared about the end of the world Hannah knows when it’s going to happen. What she doesn’t expect is meeting Hannah Marks in her therapist’s waiting room. Ellis Kimball has made note of all possible scenarios, and she is prepared for each one. A super eruption that spews lakes of lava. An engrossing and thoughtful contemporary tale that tackles faith, friendship, family, anxiety, and the potential apocalypse from Katie Henry, the acclaimed author of Heretics Anonymous. |