Like Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband is a comedy of manners and society. Characterized by witty dialogue and pithy sayings this story is traditionally played in the era in which it was written.

Epicentre however has chosen (for reasons which are readily apparent) to bring it into 2014. The plot is centred around a scandal brewing for a politician over an indiscretion made in his youth, the question being: should one be accountable for a youthful folly after years of otherwise unblemished action?