The Importance Of Being Earnest

A new production of Oscar Wilde’s brilliant comic masterpiece. Directed by Lucy Bailey, the cast features Martin Jarvis, Nigel Havers, Siân Phillips, Cherie Lunghi, Christine Kavanagh, Rosalind Ayres and Niall Buggy.

Dubbed by Oscar Wilde ‘a trivial comedy for serious people’ the production takes this sentiment to heart and delivers an entirely faithful, but nonetheless unique, setting to one of the greatest theatrical comedies. Acclaimed comic novelist, Simon Brett, was commissioned to create an original new context for the play with designs by the innovative leading theatre designer William Dudley. A star-studded cast have been transformed into The Bunbury Company of Players to bring Wilde’s genius afresh to a new audience.