The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oct. 28, 2018

A new production of one of the funniest plays in English, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, was broadcast live to cinemas from the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End and is now available as a recorded programme. Wilde’s much-loved masterpiece throws love, logic and language into the air to make one of theatre’s most dazzling firework displays. Jack, Algy, Gwendolyn and Cecily discover how unsmooth runs the course of true love, while Lady Bracknell keeps a baleful eye on the mayhem of manners.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oct. 28, 2018

The Importance of Being Earnest
A new production of one of the funniest plays in English, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, was broadcast live to cinemas from the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End and is now available as a recorded programme. Wilde’s much-loved masterpiece throws love, logic and language into the air to make one of theatre’s most dazzling firework displays. Jack, Algy, Gwendolyn and Cecily discover how unsmooth runs the course of true love, while Lady Bracknell keeps a baleful eye on the mayhem of manners.
Producers
Original title The Importance of Being Earnest
Directors Michael Fentiman
Writers Oscar Wilde

Cast

Sophie Thompson

as Lady Bracknell

Fiona Button

as Cecily Cardew

Jeremy Swift

as Reverend Chasuble

Fehinti Balogun

as Algernon Moncrieff

Jacob Fortune-Lloyd

as John Worthing

Stella Gonet

as Miss Prism

Pippa Nixon

as Gwendolyn Fairfax