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As you enter Reimag(in)ing the Victorians, a quote from Oscar Wilde faces you from across the room: “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.” Wilde’s statement draws the attention of visitors to two things. First, the fact that history is an ever-changing form of representation. And…

The director of The Eternal Daughter and its star are old friends, in an ‘OG working relationship’. But the timing had to be right to make this gothic tale. ‘I got derailed by worries,’ she says

Though Julian Fellowes’ tale of New York aristos never fizzes as it should, you will still swallow it whole … even if it feels wrong with every fibre of your being

Theatre and film director Sean Mathias fears the policing of language will force all to work from text books

In the middle of the final decade of the 19th century, Britain was the most powerful and richest nation on earth, with the largest empire ever known. The nation might be thought to have had nothing of which to be frightened, yet frightened it was.

The author of award-winning alternative history novel ‘The New Life’ tells Louis Chilton how Wilde’s trial set back a moment of optimism

Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost feels quite ghostly itself, doomed to walk the earth through its many adaptations. There have been at least 14 television versions, the most recent in 2021, and it has not been long since cinemagoers encountered director Yann Samuell’s French-Belgian version, Le Fantôme de Canterville (2016).

Oscar Wilde’s short story is the basis for this energetic family cartoon, with a spirited ghost voiced by Stephen Fry and a brief visit from confrere Hugh Laurie

There were, says Grant Robertson, a lot of professors of hindsight economics in the room at the ASB Queenstown finance debate. Newsroom's Jonathan Milne was also there.