A Woman of No Importance
28/11/2017
2h 13m



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
Sioned Jones
Tilly
Paul Rider
Mr. Kelvil M.P.
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