A Woman of No Importance

A Woman of No Importance

Nov. 28, 2017

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 captured live for cinemas from the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. 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.

A Woman of No Importance

Nov. 28, 2017

A Woman of No Importance
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 captured live for cinemas from the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. 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.
Producers
Original title A Woman of No Importance
Directors Dominic Dromgoole
Writers Oscar Wilde

Cast

Eve Best

as Mrs. Arbuthnot

Anne Reid

as Lady Hunstanton

Dominic Rowan

as Lord Illingworth

Eleanor Bron

as Lady Caroline Pontefract

Harry Lister Smith

as Gerald Arbuthnot

William Gaunt

as Reverend Daubeny

William Mannering

as Lord Alfred Rufford

Crystal Clarke

as Miss Hester Worsley

Meg Coombs

as Alice

Sam Cox

as Sir John Pontefract

Emma Fielding

as Mrs. Allonby

Phoebe Fildes

as Lady Stutfield

Sioned Jones

as Tilly

Paul Rider

as Mr. Kelvil M.P.