presents THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST #WildeWednesdays By Oscar Wilde #TIOBE Filmed live at the Vaudeville Theatre on 9 October 2018 CAST (in order of speaking) CREATIVES & PRODUCTION FEHINTI BALOGUN ALGERNON MONCRIEFF MICHAEL FENTIMAN DIRECTOR GEOFFREY FRESHWATER LANE MADELEINE GIRLING SET DESIGNER JACOB FORTUNE-LLOYD JOHN WORTHING (JACK) GABRIELLA SLADE COSTUME DESIGNER SOPHIE THOMPSON LADY BRACKNELL JACK KNOWLES LIGHTING DESIGNER PIPPA NIXON HON. GWENDOLEN FAIRFAX GEORGE DENNIS SOUND DESIGNER STELLA GONET MISS PRISM MICHAEL BRUCE COMPOSER FIONA BUTTON CECILY CARDEW JAMES CALLÀS BALL ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR TIM GIBSON MOULTON /ENSEMBLE / GABRIELLE DAWES CDG CASTING DIRECTOR UNDERSTUDY ALGERNON, JACK AND MERRIMAN JEREMY SWIFT REV. CANON CHASUBLE ROBIN LONGLEY COMPANY STAGE MANAGER MATT CROSBY MERRIMAN / SARAH LYNDON DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER UNDERSTUDY CHASUBLE AND LANE KIRSTY MACDIARMID ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER MEG COOMBS ENSEMBLE / ANDY McCARTHY ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER UNDERSTUDY GWENDOLEN AND CECILY DOMINIC DROMGOOLE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ALANA RAMSEY ENSEMBLE / BONNIE MORRIS ASSOCIATE PRODUCER UNDERSTUDY MISS PRISM AND LADY BRACKNELL ALICE SCHWEITZER ASSISTANT PRODUCER Running Time 133 minutes Act 1 40 mins Directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon Interval 15 mins Filmed for the screen by Serpent Productions Act 2 78 mins Distributed to cinemas worldwide by More2Screen Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was first performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James’s Theatre in London. This new production at the Vaudeville Theatre was staged by the Classic Spring Theatre Company led by Dominic Dromgoole, former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe. A ‘brilliantly funny’ (★★★★ Times) and ‘charming’ (★★★★ Evening Standard) production of Wilde’s masterpiece throws love, logic and language into the air to make one of theatre’s most dazzling firework displays. Jack, Algy, Gwendolyn and Cecily discover how unsmooth runs the course of true love, while Lady Bracknell keeps a baleful eye on the mayhem of manners. Michael Fentiman’s ‘absolutely hilarious’ (★★★★★ WhatsOnStage) adaptation stars Olivier Award winner Sophie Thompson (Guys and Dolls, Chichester/West End; Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Jeremy Swift (Downton Abbey, ITV), alongside Fiona Button (The Split, BBC), Pippa Nixon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, RSC) and Stella Gonet (Handbagged, Hampstead Theatre/West End). This was the ‘magnificent’ (★★★★ Sunday Times) final instalment of Classic Spring’s critically acclaimed Oscar Wilde Season, a year-long celebration of the brilliant Victorian playwright. BRINGING MORE CHOICE TO YOUR CINEMA Live and recorded theatre, opera, ballet, music & exhibitions Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @more2screen Website: more2screen.com.