A Woman of No Importance (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.
Director: Dominic Dromgoole
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Eve Best as Mrs. Arbuthnot |
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Anne Reid as Lady Hunstanton |
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Dominic Rowan as Lord Illingworth |
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Eleanor Bron as Lady Caroline Pontefract |
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Harry Lister Smith as Gerald Arbuthnot |
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William Gaunt as Reverend Daubeny |
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William Mannering as Lord Alfred Rufford |
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Crystal Clarke as Miss Hester Worsley |
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Meg Coombs as Alice |
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Sam Cox as Sir John Pontefract |
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Emma Fielding as Mrs. Allonby |
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Phoebe Fildes as Lady Stutfield |
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Sioned Jones as Tilly |
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Paul Rider as Mr. Kelvil M.P. |
| Writing | Oscar Wilde | Writer |
| Directing | Dominic Dromgoole | Director |
