Having enjoyed Wilde's work at school, I was looking forward to the performance which did not disappoint – it was slick, satirical flamboyant and funny.

The play opens with a dinner party at the fashionable Grosvenor Square home of politician Sir Robert Chiltern, who has a reputation as one of the most moral people in the House of Commons.

But as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Robert's wealth has been acquired by selling Cabinet secrets to a businessman when he was 22 and he gets locked into a blackmail battle with the morally suspect Mrs Cheveley who threatens to expose him if he does not help her with an investment.

The play is full of Wilde's famous epigrams ("I adore political parties – they are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics" and "Women have a wonderful instinct about things – They can discover everything except the obvious.") which although witty, could be tiresome at some points and I found myself longing for more realistic dialogue.

But as the play went on and the story became more sinister, it became apparent that the epigrams carried more weight than I had previously thought in this searing attack on Victorian High Society.

The characters were all well presented by the actors and managed to invoke little sympathy from the audience because they came across as insulated in their high class world and the dilemmas they face are as a result of their own flaws, such as greed and naivety.

The costumes and detailed set design also made this play extremely enjoyable to watch.

An Ideal Husband runs until 20th September and tickets, priced between £10 and £24, are available from the box office on 0115 989 5555.