Sunday 3 December 2000, 15.00-16.45 (includes interval)
Anna Carteret and Paula Wilcox present

Wilde Wilde Women
Specially commissioned by and for the British Library: an anthology of Oscar Wilde’s best writing for actresses, the female audience and the women in his life: Salomé, Lady Bracknell, Sarah Bernhardt, Mrs Arbuthnot, Miss Prism, Lilly Langtry, Ellen Terry, Queen Victoria, his wife Constance and many more.
Anna Carteret is well known for her appearances in Peak Practice, Juliet Bravo and The Pallisers. Her leading rôles for the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway include an acclaimed Mrs Cheveley in An Ideal Husband. Paula Wilcox’s starring TV appearances include
Man about the House, The Queen’s Nose, Peak Practice and The Stalker’s Apprentice. She has starred in many West End productions, such as Shirley Valentine, Pygmalion and The Queen and I.
Paula appeared last December at the British Library in the Noël Coward poetry revue
Not Yet the Dodo.

£7.50; £6.00 concessions

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