"Complete the quotation from Oscar Wilde (in Lady Windermere's Fan) ""We are all in the gutter but...""?"
A Conversation with Oscar Wilde tribute to fruition. The committee, led by Jeremy Isaacs, included the actors Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, and the poet Seamus Heaney. From sketches submitted by twelve artists, six were chosen to create models of their concepts (maquettes). Maggi Hambling's "witty and amusing" work was chosen for the memorial. The work is inscribed with a quotation from his play "Lady Windermere's Fan": "We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars". Hundreds of individual donors and foundations contributed funds for the project. The statue is located in central London between Trafalgar Square
Lady Windermere's Fan Lady Windermere's Fan Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts