The Importance Of Being Earnest

After playing successfully to packed houses in the West End and followed by a short five week tour, The Bunbury Company of Players' production of Oscar Wilde's much loved and witty masterpiece The Importance Of Being Earnest comes to The King’s Theatre Edinburgh.

Nigel Havers, Christine Kavanagh and Siân Phillips reunite as The Bunbury Company of Players, an extremely experienced cast of serious comedic actors, to reprise their roles as Algernon Moncrieff, Cecily Cardew and Lady Bracknell from the West End and introduce Oscar Wilde’s genius afresh to a new audience.

Dubbed by Wilde 'a trivial comedy for serious people', the production delivers an entirely faithful, but completely unique, setting to one of the greatest theatrical comedies.

Acclaimed director Lucy Bailey, together with comic novelist, Simon Brett, and the innovative theatre designer William Dudley created a delightful new context for the play which enchanted audiences across the UK last year.

‘Earnest gets a terrific twist' (Daily Mail)

'Thoroughly likeable... Sparkling fun' (The Times)