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A Woman of No Importance Tickets

The master of comic melodrama, Oscar Wilde, is back in the West End!

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Booking until 30 December 2017

Run time 2hr 30min (including interval)

Includes interval

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A Woman of No Importance tickets are now available for the show that opens a season of Oscar Wilde shows at the Vaudeville Theatre.

This classic Oscar Wilde satire of upper-class English society is full of the comic melodrama Wilde is so well-known for. A Woman of No Importance tells the story of house party at the country home of Lady Hunstanton but things take a turn when Gerald Arbuthnot’s appointment as Lord Illingworth’s secretary is announced. Suddenly the past has reappeared in a very concrete way and Gerald’s mother is having a difficult time justifying standing in the way of her son’s appointment. This show deals with issues of wealth, status, and gender and how they impact our characters.

The show is directed by Dominic Dromgoole, former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, and will feature Olivier Award winner Eve Best (Hedda Gabler, A Moon for the Misbegotten) Eleanor Bron (Help!, Alfie), William Gaunt (The Crucible, King Lear), and BAFTA nominee Anne Reid (Last Tango in Halifax).

Former artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Dominic Dromgoole’s new theatre company, Classic Spring, is presenting a yearlong season of Oscar Wilde plays, centring on his Victorian plays. The season includes A Woman of No ImportanceLady Windermere’s Fan De ProfundisThe Selfish Giant, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest 

“What a treat” - Daily Mail
"The season is launched with a flourish” - The Sunday Times
“Wonderfully moving… Sublimely funny” - The Independent
“Compassionate and emotionally engaging" - The Stage
“A compelling start to Dominic Dromgoole’s Wilde season… the bar has been set high” - The Times

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Recommended for ages 8 and above.

Special notes

Please note that the following performances will be filmed: 25 November 2.30pm and 28 November 7.30pm

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Recent Reviews

4.4
124 reviews
JUAN ANTONIO MORENO GONZALEZ

Entertaining and interesting performance, endearing approach to Oscar Wilde's work.

PAMELA HONOUR

Good production with a very traditional presentation. Excellent character parts, clear diction by most actors, but definitely not by Eve Best. We were sitting in row J in stalls but could not hear a lot of her lines throughout the play. Her acting was good but it was a real drawback not hearing what she was saying.

GIULIANA RUBBI

wonderful script, wonderful actresses except Esther, Lord Illington not satisfying. Very bad acoustic of the theatre, Stalls last 3 rows should cost a lot less, because the acoustic is terrible

Dr Judy MacArthur Clark

First-rate production and excellent performances, especially by Eve Best and Anne Reid. Followed by dinner at Simpson's for a truly British experience in the very best sense.

Barrie MacDonald

Excellent production of a less familiar Oscar Wilde play. I loved Anne Reid singing old music hall songs during the intervals. And, the excellent programme was informative.

martin powell

Excellent set, performance and great musical addition. However it was uncomfortably hot in the stalls. Might prevent me attending this theatre in the future.

Karen Thompson

Funny, outstanding acting. Would see it again in a heart beat

james cripps

It was a solid production with some notable performances, though not all came up to scratch leaving a slightly unbalanced result. To be fair the play is a combination of satire with a morality play that has not aged as well as other Wilde scripts: some of the single lines are memorable the two liners are noticeable for their absence.

Trottie

Splendid performance with some great musical hall interludes to give some social context to the story

Nestor Osorio

It was a very good perfomance by all actors

Andreane Thomas

Really enjoyed the play. The plot was excellent and the cast honoured the plot and writers viewpoint very well.

Alex Dearden

PLay was very good but, sat in the last stalls, see had trouble hearing properly.

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Wilde’s melodrama A Woman of No Importance is receiving a London revival (the first in 20 years or so the programme notes tells me) and is the first instalment of Dominic Dromgoole’s yearlong Wilde Season. Still to come are Lady Windermere’s Fan directed by Kathy Burke and The Importance of Being Earnest that was last seen at the Vaudeville Theatre two years ago with David Suchet starring as Lady Bracknell.

3 Nov, 2017 | By Harrison Fuller

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