Theatre review: Lady Windermere’s Fan, Pitlochry

ANOTHER evening at Pitlochry, another set of gorgeous period costumes, worn by actors deploying the most aristocratic Mayfair accents of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Lady Windermere’s Fan - Pitlochry Festival Theatre

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Yet it’s always unwise to judge a theatrical book by its cover; and for a demonstration of how an elaborate costume drama can still be made to grip the audience’s attention from the outset, and to deliver a fierce and strangely contemporary theatrical punch, there’s no better show in this year’s Pitlochry season than Richard Baron’s lucid and compelling new production of Oscar Wilde’s glittering 1892 comedy, Lady Windermere’s Fan.