Film

A Woman of No Importance

2017 · 2h 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.

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

Sioned Jones

Tilly

Paul Rider

Mr. Kelvil M.P.

• Dominic DromgooleDirector
• Oscar WildeWriter

Release date

November 28, 2017

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 13m