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Oscar Wilde's view of women in politics not ideal

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Published on July 15, 2008 at 12:03pm

Jay Yamada and Kevin Berne

Pssst. I'm going to cut your balls off.

Where:

Bruns Amphitheater, 100 Gateway, Orinda

Details:

Through July 27. $32-$62; call 510-548-9666 or visit www.calshakes.org.

Subject(s):

Chloe Veltman on An Ideal Husband

Ultimately, the comedy leaves us with a sense of cleverly crafted confusion about how the world works – a feeling of which Wilde would doubtless have approved. Far from deepening our understanding of the political process, An Ideal Husband may be the least ideal of all election-year plays. Why? Because it's a great work of art, and as Wilde famously put it in his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, "All art is quite useless."

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