It’s Wilde Time at the Taproot
The brilliance of Oscar Wilde is in good hands with Taproot’s delightful production of Lady Windermere’s Fan. The work sits firmly in the troupe’s wheelhouse, and the cast and crew hit a grand slam with it. Wilde’s subtitle for his script written in 1891 was “A Play About a Good Woman.” Co-director Karen Lund observes in her notes that the play explores such questions as “What is ‘good’? How do ‘good people’ behave? Is it all about following the rules? Whose rules?” The impressive quality about Wilde’s genius is that he is able to handle these weighty topics with such remarkable wit and ease. Imbued with the playwright’s insightful dialogue and clever plotting, this night at the theater rushes by like a cool spring breeze.









