A Woman of No Importance
2017Olivier 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.
Acted in
Eve Best
as Mrs. Arbuthnot
Anne Reid
as Lady Hunstanton
Dominic Rowan
as Lord Illingworth
Eleanor Bron
as Lady Caroline Pontefract
Harry Lister Smith
as Gerald Arbuthnot
William Gaunt
as Reverend Daubeny
William Mannering
as Lord Alfred Rufford
Crystal Clarke
as Miss Hester Worsley
Meg Coombs
as Alice
Sam Cox
as Sir John Pontefract
Emma Fielding
as Mrs. Allonby
Phoebe Fildes
as Lady Stutfield
Sioned Jones
as Tilly
Paul Rider
as Mr. Kelvil M.P.