A Woman of No Importance

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.

Cast

Eve Best Mrs. Arbuthnot Anne Reid Lady Hunstanton

Dominic Rowan Lord Illingworth

Eleanor Bron Lady Caroline Pontefract Harry Lister Smith Gerald Arbuthnot William Gaunt Reverend Daubeny

William Mannering Lord Alfred Rufford

Crystal Clarke Miss Hester Worsley

Meg Coombs Alice

Sam Cox Sir John Pontefract

Emma Fielding Mrs. Allonby

Phoebe Fildes Lady Stutfield

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