Photography: Marc Brenner

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

by Oscar Wilde

National Theatre 2024 / West End 2025

★★★★★’a sparkling new production that’s fiercely faithful to Wilde’s wickedly subersive spirit’ DAILY MAIL

★★★★★ ‘effervescent, exuberant and proudly loud’ BROADWAR WORLD

★★★★★ ‘a joyful version of Wilde’s 1895 farce’ THE SUN

★★★★★ ‘this triumphantly queer comedy is pure theatre magic’ LONDON THEATRE TIMES

★★★★ ‘Max Webster’s fizzing knockabout production” EVENING STANDARD

Designer: Rae Smith

Choreographer: Carrie-Anne Ingrouille

Lighting: Jon Clark

Sound: Nicola Chang

Music: DJ Walde

National Theatre Cast: Ncuti Gatwa, Hugh Skinner, Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlan, Amanda Lawrence, Richard Cant, Julian Bleach,

West End Cast: Stephen Fry, Olly Alexander, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Jessica Whitehurst, Kitty Hawthorne, Shobna Gulati, Hugh Dennis, Hayley Carmichael

Stephen Fry in West End transfer of The Importance of Being Earnest © Marc Brenner.jpg
Kitty Hawthorne and Jessica Whitehurst in West End transfer of The Importance of Being Earnest © Marc Brenner.jpg
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Olly Alexander in West End transfer of The Importance of Being Earnest © Marc Brenner.jpg
Hugh Dennis in West End transfer of The Importance of Being Earnest © Marc Brenner.jpg
Olly Alexander, Hayley Carmichael and Jessica Whitehurst in West End transfer of The Importance of Being Earnest © Marc Brenner.jpg
Earnest 4.jpg
Shobna Gulati and Hugh Dennis in West End transfer of The Importance of Being Earnest © Marc Brenner.jpg
Earnest 3.jpg
Next

Titus Andronicus