The Importance of Being Earnest

A Vadeville Theatre production
A play by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Adrian Noble
Designer – Peter McKintosh
Lightning – Howard Harrison
Sound – Gareth Owen
Music – Larry Blank

Cast of characters:

Lady Bracknell – David Suchet
John Worthing J.P – Michael Benz
Algernon Moncrieff – Philip Cumbus
Gwendolyn Fairfax – Emily Barber
Cecily Cardew – Imogen Doel

National treasure and Poirot star David Suchet starred as the formidable Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s much loved masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest.

Directed by Adrian Noble, (Amadeus, The King’s Speech, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) Wilde’s superb satire on Victorian manners is one of the funniest plays in the English language.

Two bachelor friends, the adorable dandy Algernon Moncrieff (Philip Cumbus – regular player at Shakespeare’s Globe) and the utterly reliable John Worthing J.P., (Downton Abbey’s Michael Benz) lead double lives to court the attentions of the exquisitely desirable Gwendolyn Fairfax (Emily Barber) and Cecily Cardew (Imogen Doel). The gallants must then grapple with the riotous consequences of their deceptions, and with the formidable Lady Bracknell.