A Woman of No Importance
movie
Released November 28, 2017
Overview
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.
Cast
Eve Best
as
Mrs. Arbuthnot
Anne Reid
as
Lady Hunstanton
Dominic Rowan
as
Lord Illingworth
Eleanor Bron
as
Lady Caroline Pontefract
Harry Lister Smith
as
Gerald Arbuthnot
William Gaunt
as
Reverend Daubeny
William Mannering
as
Lord Alfred Rufford
Crystal Clarke
as
Miss Hester Worsley
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Meg Coombs
as
Alice
Sam Cox
as
Sir John Pontefract
Emma Fielding
as
Mrs. Allonby
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Phoebe Fildes
as
Lady Stutfield
