The Importance of Being Earnest (2009)
3 July – 25 July
By Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest, first performed at the Park in 2009, charmed audiences as a "deliciously entertaining, perfectly pitched revival" (The Mail on Sunday). This was the first Oscar Wilde play to be staged at the theatre and this well-manicured comedy of handbags, button-holes and flying coat-tails was dubbed as being "as fresh as a rose garden after rain" (The Daily Telegraph).
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Reviews
The Mail on Sunday
"Irina Brown's deliciously entertaining, perfectly pitched revival of Wilde's best play...Herbert gives one of the performances of the evening...yet Lucy Briggs Owen can match her as a Cecily..."
The Daily Telegraph
"This delightful production persuades us to see and hear the play afresh...everyword and every familiar phrase sounds new-minted, as fresh as a rose garden after rain"
Time Out
"Irina Brown’s breezy production fnds new pockets of pleasure in Wilde’s masterpiece”
The Independent
“Dominic Tighe’s Algy is a transparent cad and chancer, played on the wing with a neat turn of foot. Ryan Kiggell’s Jack Worthing is a comic embodiment of dogged persistence. There are two beautifully detailed cameos by Julie Legrand as a stylishly spinsterish, surprisingly willowy Miss Prism and Richard O’Callaghan as the accommodating, hand-wringing Canon Chasuble.”