A Woman of No Importance (2018)
155 min
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.
- Release date
- November 28, 2017
- Country of origin
- Not yet available
Cast
- Eve Best as Mrs. Arbuthnot
- Eleanor Bron as Lady Caroline Pontefract
- 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
- William Gaunt as Reverend Daubeny
- Sioned Jones as Tilly
- William Mannering as Lord Alfred Rufford
Crew
- Dominic Dromgoole · Director
- Ross MacGibbon · Director
- Oscar Wilde · Writer
- Dione Orrom · Producer