A BRAND new production of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, directed by actor and director Kathy Burke, will be broadcast live at Cardigan’s Theatr Mwldan on Tuesday, March 20 (7.15pm).

Wilde’s classic social comedy will be broadcast live to cinemas from the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End.

Kathy Burke brings together a talented comedic cast including the Olivier Award-winning actress Samantha Spiro as Mrs Erlynne, Kevin Bishop as Lord Darlington, and guest starring Jennifer Saunders as the Duchess of Berwick, marking her return to the West End stage for the first time in more than 20 years.

This is the second play from the Oscar Wilde aeason, a year-long celebration of the brilliant Victorian playwright being staged by Classic Spring, a new theatre company led by Dominic Dromgoole, former artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe.

The day of Lady Windermere’s birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Darlington plants a seed of suspicion.

Is her husband having an affair? And will the other woman really attend the party? First performed in 1892, Lady Windermere’s Fan explores the ambiguity of upper-class morality and the fragile position of women in society in the late Victorian era in one of Wilde’s most popular and witty plays.

“Samantha Spiro is splendid and deeply moving, while Jennifer Saunders is inspired,” says the Independent

“Jennifer Saunders delivers a scene-stealing, scenery-devouring performance,” writes The Stage, while Time Out adds: “Saunders absolutely owns the stage. Kathy Burke has assembled a fine cast.”

ickets for Oscar Wilde Live productions are £15 (£14) and are available now from Theatr Mwldan’s box office on 01239 621200, online at www.mwldan.co.uk or via the new Mwldan app.