Rosalind Ayres, Nigel Havers, Martin Jarvis, Christine Kavanagh, Siân Phillips (2)

Oscar Wilde’s much loved and brilliantly witty masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest is touring the UK, starring Rosalind Ayres, Nigel Havers, Martin Jarvis, Christine Kavanagh and Siân Phillips who reprise their West End performances alongside Nigel Anthony, Carmen Du Sautoy and David Shaw-Parker.

The Importance Of Being Earnest elegantly lampoons the hypocrisies of a Victorian society and opens as two bachelors, the dependable John Worthing, JP and upper class playboy Algernon Moncrieff, feel compelled to create different identities in order to pursue two eligible ladies, Cecily Cardew and Gwendolyn Fairfax.

The hilarious misadventures which result from their subterfuge and their brushes with the redoubtable Lady Bracknell and the uptight Miss Prism, result in a plot that twists and fizzles with some of the finest dialogue to be found in theatre.