REVIEW: A Woman Of No Importance, Richmond Theatre ✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews Oscar Wilde’s A Woman Of No Importance presented by Classic Spring at the Richmond Theatre as part of its UK Tour.
Julian Eaves reviews Oscar Wilde’s A Woman Of No Importance presented by Classic Spring at the Richmond Theatre as part of its UK Tour.
Liza Goddard and Roy Hudd are to star in Classic Spring Theatre Company’s in Oscar Wilde’s A Woman Of No Importance UK Tour.
Whilst Wilde’s intelligent witticisms are successfully displayed here, and despite there being some good performances, ‘A Woman of No Importance’ feels far too long, and a sense of momentum and buzz is missing.
In the first of our Tales From The Dressing Room series, Penelope Keith chats candidly to JBR about the changes in the industry since her training. “Come in, come in. Welcome to the most elegant dressing room in the West End.” How could it not be? This is, after all, the famed Dressing Room No. 10 at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Current resident, the ever fragrant Penelope Keith, is precisely as one imagines her to be; part hectoring schoolmarm, part favourite aunt. “I like the idea of older actors passing on what they know, but don’t make me sound too much like an old fart,” she pleads, as she crosses the room and takes her seat. The room is not the most extravagantly appointed one in the West End. A large, French style dressing table occupies the right hand side where Keith’s wig sits, proudly, on a stand. Modest amounts … Read more