Olivier award-winner Eve Best (A Moon for the Misbegotten and Hedda Gabler) and BAFTA-nominated actress Anne Reid (Last Tango in Halifax) star in this new classically staged production of Oscar Wilde’s comedy directed by Dominic Dromgoole, former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe. The first play from the Classic Spring Theatre Company’s Oscar Wilde Season, A Woman of No Importance will be filmed live at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End especially for the cinema screen.
An earnest young American woman, a louche English lord, and an innocent young chap join a house party of fin de siècle fools and grotesques. Nearby a woman lives, cradling a long-buried secret. First performed in 1893, Oscar Wilde’s marriage of glittering wit and Ibsenite drama satirised the socially conservative world of the Victorian upper-class, creating a vivid new theatrical voice which still resonates today.
CAST
Mrs Arbuthnot Eve Best
Lady Hunstanton Anne Reid
Lady Caroline Pontefract Eleanor Bron
Hester Worsley Crystal Clarke
Mrs Allonby Emma Fielding
Lord Illingworth Dominic Rowan
Gerald Arbuthnot Harry Lister Smith
Reverend Daubeny William Gaunt
PRODUCTION
Author Oscar Wilde
Director Dominic Dromgoole
Set & Costume Designer Jonathan Fensome
Mon 25 Mar - Thu 4 Apr , Various Times
Thu 28 Mar - Thu 11 Apr , Various Times
Fri 29 Mar - Thu 11 Apr , Various Times
Fri 29 Mar - Thu 4 Apr , Various Times