THE ROUND COMPANY - Key Persons
Alastair Marriott was born in 1968 in St Margaret's at Cliffe, Kent. Although he became aware of dance through the films of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, the spur to take dance lessons came from the son of a family friend who wanted to learn; Marriott went too. After all- round study at Deal Dance Centre, he joined The Royal Ballet School at the age of 11, and studied there for the next eight years. He joined the Company in 1988, was promoted to Soloist in 1992 and Principal Character Artist in 2003.
While Marriott's first experiences of choreographing work came at White Lodge, it wasn't until he had established himself as a dance that he took it up again. He initially started choreographing as an experiment to try to convey the type of dance that he would want either to watch or to dance himself. He is very proud of his classical ballet heritage and uses this as a basis for developing a voice that will resonate with modern audiences while still presenting musical, artistic and technical challenges. Collaboration is very important to Marriott, and he has created all his work with the assistance of Jonathan Howells (Royal Ballet Soloist and Ballet Master). His ballets for the Company include Night Falls Fast (2001) for the Royal Ballet First Drafts, followed by Grey Garden (2002) for the Clore Studio Upstairs and Being and Having Been (2004) for the Linbury Studio Theatre. The premiere of his first main- stage piece for The Royal Ballet, Tanglewood, was in 2005; Children of Adam followed in 2007; sensorium in 2009; 2012 he choreographed Trespass in collaboration with Christopher Wheeldon for Metamorphosis: Titian and in 2014 he created Connectome. Marriott has kept a keen interest in The Royal Ballet School, adjudicating and choreographing for them regularly. His ballets for the school include Prelude and Fugue (2003), Schrumpf (2010) and Simple Symphony (2012) which was also performed by the John Cranko School in Stuttgart for their annual School performance.
Marriott has a broad interest in other forms of entertainment and enjoys expanding his creative experiences away from the ballet stage. In 2009 he choreographed The Royal Opera's production of The Tsarina's Slippers, which was directed by Francesca Zambello and subsequently broadcast by the BBC. He has made pieces such as Kiss (2006), a pas de deux for Darcey Bussell for her own programme at Sadler's Wells, and The Red Shoes (2008), for her stage show 'Viva la Diva'. In 2010 he was asked by the Spanish designer Estella Archs to choreograph a fashion show as part of Paris Fashion Week, and he was also invited to make a pas de deux for The Royal Variety Performance featuring dancers from The Royal Ballet, with music sung by Russell Watson. His pas de deux are often requested for international galas, including the commissions Leider (2010) and Look west (2011) for Mara Galeazzi's charity galas at Sadler's Wells, and In the Hothouse created for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Gala at The a Royal Opera House in 2012. In the same year he collaborated with Christopher Wheeldon on the extinguishing of the flame for the closing ceremony of the London Olympics. In 2015 he created a solo work Borrowed Light which was toured by The Royal Ballet to New York City and The Mikailovsky Ballet performed a pas de deux from Sensorium for the Russian TV show 'Bolshoi Ballet'. In 2019, Marriott created The Unknown Soldier for The Royal Ballet, which was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production.
Marriott was presented with a medal for 25 years' service with The Royal Ballet in 2014. He has been nominated three times for Best Classical Choreography at the Critics' Circle Dance Awards and is currently nominated for A Golden Mask award in Russia for Zeitgeist a ballet he created for Natalia Osipova in 2015 for her Summer tour including London, New York City, St Petersburg and Moscow.
In 2016 Alastair was the choreographer on After Miss Julie for Helen George, which was directed by Anthony Banks at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.
Cathy Marston is an award-winning choreographer, artistic director and Clore Cultural Leadership Fellow. After education in Cambridge, she spent two years at the Royal Ballet School, before launching a successful international career now spanning over twenty-five years. She will become Director of Ballett Zurich, Switzerland, from August 2023.
Marston's great gift is to join artistic dots, creating form for stories, emotions and ideas. She inherited a passion for literature from her English-teacher parents; for her, stories inspire dance. As Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House (2002-2007), she created a critically acclaimed interpretation of Ibsen's Ghosts, before the tempest…after the storm, and many other short works. During her six-year tenure directing the Bern Ballett, Switzerland, (2007-2013) she continued to develop her unique approach to narrative in works such as Juliet and Romeo and Ein Winternachtstraum . Since 2013, receiving commissions from companies all around the world, she continues to offer new perspectives to old narratives, for example in Mrs Robinson (her adaptation of Charles Webb's The Graduate), Snowblind (inspired by Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome), Charlotte Bronté's Jane Eyre, DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Likewise, she offers unusual perspectives in her biographically-inspired works, The Cellist, Victoria and Witch-hunt. Ever-more widely recognised for her distinctive style of dance-drama, she won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Best Dance Production for Victoria (Northern Ballet), the UK National Dance Award for The Cellist (The Royal Ballet), The Suit (Ballet Black) and has been short-listed for both the Olivier Awards and National Dance Awards for several other works including Jane Eyre and Victoria (Northern Ballet.) In 2020 the International Institute for Dance and Theatre awarded her their prize for Excellence in International Dance.
Marston has also embraced the digital stage, capturing her works for the screen as well as creating work especially for the camera. The Cellist, Victoria and other short works have been live streamed to cinema/TV and are available on DVD/digital platforms. Her specially created film works include Mrs Robinson (a short, location-shot adaptation of the full work for San Francisco Ballet), Bertha (Joffrey Ballet), Switchback (Ballet Unleashed) and Drift in which she performs herself.
Marston's portfolio includes creations and collaborations with The Royal Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Northern Ballet, English National Ballet, Cuban National Ballet, Danish Royal Ballet, Ballet Black, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and many more. In addition to commissioned works she has founded two project based companies in the UK - The Cathy Marston Project - and Switzerland - Compagnie La Ronde. From these structures she has self-produced, commissioned and toured several programs of work.
"She has let the drama bleed through the dance." Telegraph
Job Titles:
- Director and Choreographer
Christopher Wheeldon, OBE trained at The Royal Ballet School and joined The Royal Ballet in 1991. In 1993, he joined New York City Ballet and was promoted to Soloist in 1998. He was named NYCB's first Resident Choreographer in July 2001. Since then, Mr. Wheeldon has created and staged productions for many of the world's major ballet companies.
In 2007, Mr. Wheeldon founded Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and was appointed an Associate Artist for Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. Mr. Wheeldon now serves as Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet. As Artistic Associate, Mr. Wheeldon has created many works for the company, including the full-length Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Winter's Tale, both of which were co-productions with The National Ballet of Canada. In 2012, his ballet Cinderella premiered at Het Nationale Ballet and is making its way to worldwide audiences.
For the Metropolitan Opera, he choreographed Dance of the Hours for Ponchielli's La Gioconda (2006) and Richard Eyre's production of Carmen (2012) as well as ballet sequences for the feature film Center Stage (2000) and Sweet Smell of Success on Broadway (2002).
Mr. Wheeldon created a special excerpt for the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. In April 2016, he was the Artistic Director for the Fashion Forward exhibition in Paris at La Musee Arts et Decoratif.
In 2014, Mr. Wheeldon directed and choreographed the musical version of An American in Paris, which had productions in Paris, on Broadway, and in London. 2016 was The Joffrey Ballet's world premiere of The Nutcracker reimagined by Mr. Wheeldon and he directed and choreographed the gala presentation of Lerner & Loewe's Brigadoon starring Kelli O'Hara and Patrick Wilson at New York City Center in 2017. In 2018, Mr. Wheeldon staged two pieces in Tokyo: An American in Paris and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland while in 2019, Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale was performed by The Bolshoi Ballet. 2019 was also the premiere for Corybantic Games at The Royal Ballet and a re-staged version of Cinderella for the English National Ballet at Royal Albert Hall. In 2022, MJ The Musical opened on Broadway and a new full length ballet version of Like Water for Chocolate will have its world premiere at The Royal Ballet in June.
Among Mr. Wheeldon's awards are a Tony Award for Best Choreography for An American in Paris, an Outer Critics Award for Best Choreography and Direction for An American in Paris, the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, the American Choreography Award, the Dance Magazine Award, multiple London Critics' Circle Awards, and the Léonide Massine Prize for new choreography. Mr. Wheeldon's productions of Cinderella and The Winter's Tale received the Benois de la Danse, and he is an Olivier Award winner for his ballets Aeternum for The Royal Ballet and Polyphonia for Morphoses.
In 2016, Mr. Wheeldon was named an O.B.E. and was made an Honorary Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dickson Mbi was born in Cameroon and grew up in London where he studied at Lewisham College and London Contemporary Dance School. He is a world-renowned dancer in the Hip Hop dance community and best known for his popping skills which is integral to the work that he creates today. Dickson has featured in multiple TV campaigns including BALMAIN X H&M (2016), AUDI E TRON (2014), and was the face for LUCOZADE REVIVE (2012). Over the course of his career, he has worked with award-winning artists such as Russell Maliphant, Boy Blue Entertainment, Robbie Williams, Corrine Bailey-Rae, Black Eyed Peas and choreographed the 'Leave A Trace' music video for CHVRCHES.
He is an award-winning choreographer and has been commissioned by several theatres, festivals and arts organisation. In 2018, Sadler's Wells Theatre commissioned a documentary ‘Street to Stage' about Dickson's artistic journey for BBC4's Danceworks series. Later that year, Sadler's Wells commissioned him to create work for their elderly company - The Company of Elders. In the following year, Dickson was commissioned by BBC Young Dancer to create the winning choreography UNSTRUNG performed by Max Revell.
As a leader in his community, Dickson focuses on fostering the future generations of dancers with his partner Brooke Milliner in their battle crews Prototype and FIYA HOUSE. As a choreographer, Dickson enjoys making works for other companies as well as presenting his own works under Dickson Mbi Company.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director and Choreographer
Jessica Lang is an American director and choreographer based in New York City.
Since 1999, Lang has created more than 100 original works on companies worldwide including American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Japan, The Joffrey Ballet, and her eponymous company Jessica Lang Dance, among many others.
For more than two decades, Lang has worked extensively for American Ballet Theatre. Her original creations on the main company include Her Notes, Garden Blue, and ZigZag with the legendary Tony Bennett, as well as Let Me Sing Forevermore which was performed on the ABT Across America nationwide tour and featured regularly on Celebrity Cruise entertainment programs. Lang has created seven ballets on ABT Studio Company including Children's Songs Dance in collaboration with music icon Chick Corea. Additionally for ABT, Lang was part of the founding faculty of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, a teaching artist for the summer intensives and the Make-a-Ballet program, and served as a mentor and panelist for the Incubator program.
For opera, Lang directed and choreographed Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at the 2013 Glimmerglass Opera Festival that was presented at Lincoln Center's White Light Festival in 2017 performed by Jessica Lang Dance. In 2016, she choreographed San Francisco Opera's production of Aida, directed by Francesca Zambello that was presented at Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera and, in 2022, LA Opera. Additional commissions include new works for the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra, The Harris Theater and the Chicago Architecture Biennial in collaboration with architect Steven Holl, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum for its Works and Process series. For fashion, Lang was the movement advisor for Carolina Herrera's Pre-Fall 2022 collection.
Lang was Artistic Director of Jessica Lang Dance from 2011-2019. Founded in 2011, the company toured and performed in over 85 cities presented by major venues including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles Music Center, The Kennedy Center, The Harris Theater, New York City Center, Northrop Auditorium, Winspear Opera House, Tel Aviv Opera House, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, BAM Fisher and Helikon Opera, among many others.
She is the recipient of a 2018 Martha Hill Mid-Career Award, the 2017 Arison Award and a 2014 Bessie Award. She was nominated for The Critics' Circle National Dance Awards for Best Digital Choreography in 2021 for Ghost Variations on Pacific Northwest Ballet and a Manchester Evening News Award in 2012 for Lyric Pieces on Birmingham Royal Ballet. She has been a fellow of New York City Center and NYU's Center for Ballet and the Arts, and in 2019 named a Caroline Hearst Choreographer-in-Residence at Princeton University. Lang's work has also been performed by numerous educational institutions including The Juilliard School, SUNY Purchase, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and University of Arizona, among many others.
Jessica Lang is originally from Bucks County, PA and a graduate of The Juilliard School under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy. Lang is a former member of Twyla Tharp's company, THARP! where she toured and performed all over the world.
Kim Brandstrup studied Film at the University of Copenhagen and Choreography with Nina Fonaroff at London School of Contemporary Dance. He founded his own dance company, Arc, in 1985, forging a narrative style that owes more to his early cinematic training than to classical story ballet or to the kineticism of contemporary dance. Throughout his career, and at times at odds with current trends, he has sought a theatre of movement that is both powerful and subtle, creating poignant and suggestive narratives that are always intensely human and emotionally revealing.
Brandstrup regularly choreographs for leading dance companies, including Royal Danish Ballet, Danish Dance Theatre, English National Ballet, New York City Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Rambert, Norwegian Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. His opera and theatre choreography includes credits with the Metropolitan Opera, New York, English National Opera, Greek National Opera, the Barbican, Opera North, Thé tre du Ch telet and at the Bregenz, Glyndebourne and Vienna festivals. His narrative approach has found new paths, growing more refined and precise while enjoying a looser, more experimental tone in its storytelling. He was the winner of the 2016 Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography for Transfigured Night (Rambert), the 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production for Goldberg: The Rojo/Brandstrup Project (Royal Ballet) and 1990 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for Orfeo (London Contemporary Dance Theatre).
Job Titles:
- Principal Ballet Coach, Public Speaker & Author
Leanne Benjamin was born in Rockhampton, Australia. At 16 she joined The Royal Ballet School winning the Adeline Genée gold medal and the Prix de Lausanne and she performed the role of Giselle at Covent Garden in the Royal Ballet School's annual performance.
Leanne joined Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet in 1983, English National Ballet in 1988 and the Deutsche Oper Ballet Berlin in 1990 before joining the Royal Ballet in 1992 at Kenneth MacMillan's invitation, where she performed as a principal dancer for 21 years.
Her wide repertory included most of the classical and neo-classical repertoire. She created new roles for choreographers including, Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon and Twyla Tharp and was one of the last dancers to work with Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan.
In 2004 and 2009, Leanne was recognized as Best Female Dancer in the Critic's Circle Dance Awards and in 2013 she was given the De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance.
In 2005 Leanne received an OBE in recognition of her services to dance, in 2014 an Honorary Doctorate of Performing Arts by Central Queensland University and in 2015 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.
In 2016 Leanne was appointed a Governor of The Royal Ballet Companies and became the Vice- Chair in 2020.
Leanne is the Patron of the Tait Memorial Trust where an annual award is given in her name to support young Australian and New Zealand Dancers to train in the UK. She is now coaching pre-professional students and working with a number of international ballet companies as a coach to their principal dancers.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director of the Octagon Theatre
Lotte Wakeham is currently the Artistic Director of the Octagon Theatre in Bolton; a position she has held since 2018. As Artistic Director, she has programmed new, bold and adventurous work; including a Zoom production of A Midsummer Night's Dream during the coronavirus pandemic. Prior to this she was Associate Artistic Director at the Stephen Joseph Theatre.
Lotte was nominated as ‘Best Director' in the 2017 Off West End Awards for her production of The Hound of the Baskervilles (Jermyn Street), which transferred following a sell-out run at the English Theatre Frankfurt.
After initial studies at Oxford University, Lotte trained at the National Theatre Studio and has worked as Assistant/Associate Director with directors including Richard Eyre and Jeremy Sams.
For the Royal Shakespeare Company's production Matilda, (Stratford/West End) Lotte, was Associate Director. Giving one of many 5-star reviews of the show, the Telegraph said, "When it came to deciding which production should receive the prize for best musical at the Evening Standard Drama Awards… It was crystal clear that the statuette should go to the RSC's hilarious, moving and magical production of Matilda."
Lotte's Broadway experience includes being Associate Director at the esteemed Shubert Theatre. She trained at Oxford University and the National Theatre Studio.
Lotte was Associate Director of Matilda for the RSC (West End and Broadway). The show won 7 Olivier Awards in 2012, including Best Director and Best New Musical, and on Broadway the production won 4 Tony Awards, and 5 Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Musical.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director and Choreographer
Meryl Tankard is one of Australia's iconic choreographers.
Meryl began her career as a dancer with the Australian Ballet and then moved to Germany to join Pina Bausch's Wuppertaler Tanztheater, becoming one of the company's leading artists. Meryl created roles in Cafe Muller, Kontakthof, Arien, 1980, Bandoneon, Keuscheitslegende, amongst others. During her time in Germany she worked on two films, one for ZDV TV Fur Donlad mit Lieben Grusse and Sydney an der Wupper, in which she acted and co-wrote with director Bettina Woernle. Sydney an der Wupper was awarded a Silver Band for Best Short Film at the Berlin Film Festival in 1984.
After six years in Germany, Meryl returned to Australia. She played the lead in a ABC TV series Dancing Daze produced by Jan Chapman and directed (in part) by Jane Campion and also performed in Robyn Archer's Pack of Women for ABCTV.
Meryl also choreographed for theatre, opera and TV. In 1989 she directed her own company for four years in Canberra and began building a rich repetoire of work. Meryl was one of the first dance artists to incorporate photographic, video, film projections in her work and, together with her partner Regis Lansac, has continued to develop new ways of working with the medium. As acknowledgement of her contribution to the arts she was awarded Canberran of the Year in 1992.
Moving to Adelaide to direct the Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide (1993-1999), she continued to create full length dance theatre works and has toured extensively to Europe, USA, UK and Asia. She has created over 20 full length works including Furioso, Possessed, Aurora, Songs with Mara, Two Feet, Rasa and Inuk.
Since 2000 Meryl has been working freelance, creating the opening segment, Deep Sea Dreaming of the 2000 Olympic Games Ceremony in Sydney, Bolero for the Lyon Ballet, Merryland and Petroushka for Netherlands Dance Theatre 3 and 1, Wild Swans, a full-length ballet for The Australian Ballet and Cinderella for the Leipzig Ballet. Meryl has also choreographed for musicals on London's West End and for Disney on Broadway and Tokyo for Horipro Productions, as well as operas and films, working recently as a movement consultant in Namibia for Mad Max: Fury Road.
Meryl created The Oracle for Paul White in 2010, winning Aust Dance Award for Most Outstanding Choreography and Best Male Dancer. The Oracle toured Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, London, France, Switzerland, Germany and USA
In 2010 Meryl gained a Graduate Diploma in Film Directing from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and her recent documentary Michelle's Story won the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Adelaide Film Festival 2015 as well as Screen SA awards for Best Short Film, Best Documentary and Best Soundtrack.
Meryl was awarded the $50,000 Jim Bettison and Helen James Award in 2016. The award recognises individual Australians who have contributed exemplary and inspiring work of high achievement in their field with beneft to the wider community.
In 2018 Meryl choreographed Camille Claudel in Le Theatre de l'Athenee in Paris and remounted Furioso for the Royal Ballet of Flanders.
For the Adelaide Festival in 2019 Meryl created two full-length works : a new version of Two Feet for the acclaimed Russian ballerina Natalia Osipova, and Zizanie for Restless Dance Theatre (for performers with and without disabilty)
Robert Binet was born in Toronto and is a graduate of Canada's National Ballet School. He was appointed Choreographic Associate of The National Ballet of Canada in 2013 after serving as the first ever Choreographic Apprentice for The Royal Ballet in London, where he was mentored by Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor. Robert returned to The Royal Ballet in 2016 to create Void and Fire in honour of McGregor's 10th anniversary with the company.
Robert has created several innovative works for The National Ballet of Canada. In 2016, The Dreamers Ever Leave You, an immersive piece that debuted as part of the Lawren Harris exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, was created and has since been remounted in numerous iterations in Canada and on tour in London, England and for film. His other works include Unearth, These Worlds in Us, The Wild Space Between Two Hearts, Orpheus Alive, set to an original score by Missy Mazzoli, Self and Soul and Lake Maligne, a solo he adapted for Expansive Dances, a series of dance films created during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Robert's choreography is performed by several companies around the globe. He has created original work for New York City Ballet, Dutch National Ballet's junior company, Ballett am Rhein, Estonian National Ballet, Germany's National Youth Ballet, The Genée International Ballet Competition and Ballet Black. He also choreographed the music videos for Owen Pallett's Song for Five & Six and Belle and Sebastian's The Party Line.
Since 2019, Robert has supported Canadian choreographers and independent dance artists as Creative Producer of CreativAction, a programme that shares the National Ballet's resources with the broader dance community and develops choreographic talent. In 2021, he was appointed Curator and Producer, CreativAction and Special Initiatives in recognition of his growing contribution to this area of the company's work.
Robert was mentored by Artistic Director Emerita Karen Kain for the 2017 Governor General's Performing Arts Award Mentorship Program.
Job Titles:
- Associate Artist of Sadler 's Wells
- Choreographer
Tobias Round's diverse résumé in the entertainment industry has been shaped over a 20-year career through his key involvement in some of London's outstanding theatrical productions. His experience includes a succession of innovative, critically acclaimed and dazzling shows; crossing straight theatre, musicals and dance.
Through the past decade a string of West End successes have added to his credits. These include the transfer of Hampstead Theatre's sold-out production of Di and Viv and Rose to the Vaudeville, The Royal Opera House's The Wind in the Willows at the Duchess - then again at the Vaudeville (where it won Olivier Award), What You Will with Roger Rees at the Apollo, Death and the Maiden at the Comedy with Thandie Newton, the Trevor Nunn directed Birdsong at the Comedy, The Little Dog Laughed with Tamsin Greig, Rupert Friend and Gemma Arterton at the Garrick, Three Days of Rain at the Apollo with James McAvoy and Nigel Harman, the Donmar's transfer of Piaf to the Vaudeville, Year of the Rat at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Swimming with Sharks with Christian Slater at the Vaudeville and Hound of the Baskervilles at the Duchess. A recent hit, with packed houses and 5-star reviews, was a 9-month run at the Dominion of An American in Paris.
During his time as the Donmar Warehouse's General Manager his production versatility and fluency were polished as he supported the artistic vision and eclectic programming of Michael Grandage, Tobias was involved in the gestation of almost 20 Donmar plays and musicals including West End transfers such as Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly with Ewan McGregor, Frost/Nixon, Grand Hotel, John Mortimer's Voyage Round My Father, Peter Oswald's version of Schiller's Mary Stuart, and Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie.
Tobias came into the industry through Columbia Artists Management and IMG in New York, Paris and London, with a remit for classical music and international touring. Once based in the UK full-time, he became the Executive Producer for Mathew Bourne's ground-breaking and internationally acclaimed dance company, Adventures in Motion Pictures before spending time on the board of Wayne McGregor's Random Dance Company. Most recently, Tobias was the General Manager for Dominic Dromgoole's new company, Classic Spring, during its ambitious, year-long season of Oscar Wilde revivals at The Vaudeville.