A Woman of No Importance

A Woman of No Importance

2017 · 133 min · ★ 6.0

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.

Directed by Dominic Dromgoole · Written by Oscar Wilde

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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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