A Woman of No Importance

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20172h 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

Photo of Eve Best

Eve Best

Mrs. Arbuthnot

Photo of Anne Reid

Anne Reid

Lady Hunstanton

Photo of Dominic Rowan

Dominic Rowan

Lord Illingworth

Photo of Eleanor Bron

Eleanor Bron

Lady Caroline Pontefract

Photo of Harry Lister Smith

Harry Lister Smith

Gerald Arbuthnot

Photo of William Gaunt

William Gaunt

Reverend Daubeny

Photo of William Mannering

William Mannering

Lord Alfred Rufford

Photo of Crystal Clarke

Crystal Clarke

Miss Hester Worsley

Photo of Sam Cox

Sam Cox

Sir John Pontefract

Photo of Emma Fielding

Emma Fielding

Mrs. Allonby

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