Oscar Wilde’s best loved children’s stories

Friday 26 December, 2.50pm

A trilogy of Oscar Wilde’s best known stories for children: The Devoted Friend, The Nightingale and the Rose and The Selfish Giant. Animated in 3 distinctly different styles, each of the films will have a storytelling device featuring a family, consisting of Uncle Arthur, his niece Tilly and her young daughter Ruth. Arthur moves in with Ruth and Tilly and introduces them to the magic of story-telling.

The films will feature a host of well-known voice talents including Pete Postlethwaite, Brendan Gleeson, Fiona Allen, Eamon Morrissey, Crispen Bonham-Carter, Emilia Fox, Anna Chancellor and a cast of talented young child actors. 

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854 and studied classics at Trinity before moving to Oxford in 1874. He published his first collection of stories for children in 1888, entitled ‘The Happy Prince and Other Stories’. The stories have become so famous that they are often thought to be traditional tales, but they were in fact made up by Wilde to tell to his own children, Vyvyan and Cecil. 

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