Oscar Wilde

The Importance Of Being Earnest UK Tour Tickets

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The Importance Of Being Earnest review Harold Pinter Theatre

Following its run in the West End, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest will embark on a tour of the UK in late 2015. With a cast including Nigel Havers, Sian Philips, and Christine Kavanagh performing as The Bunbury Company Of Players, this new production is directed by Lucy Bailey, designed by William Dudley with added material written by Simon Brett. One of Wilde’s most famous plays, The Importance Of Being Earnest lampoons the hypocrisies of Victoria England with two bachelor’s creating different identities in order to pursue two eligible young ladies. Please note that this is not the production that is about to play in the West End starring David Suchet. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST 2015 UK TOUR 10 September – 12 September 2015 Richmond Theatre 15 September – 19 September 2015 Milton Keynes Theatre 22 September – 26 September 2015 Orchard Theatre, Dartford 29 September – … Read more

TALES FROM THE DRESSING ROOM : Penelope Keith

Interviews
Penelope Keith

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