Written for The Stage Ronald Selwyn Phillips’ much lauded adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s absurd short story is given a disappointing revival in Nadine Hanwell’s flat-footed production. In a delicate send-up of the silliness of the – albeit still superior – upper classes, this hammy version of Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime sees the eponymous fop conned [...]
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Review: The Importance of Being Earnest (A Musical)
Posted in Reviews, tagged Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde, Riverside Studios, The Importance of Being Earnest on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Written for Time Out ‘A handbag? A handbag?’ Gyles Brandreth titters before breaking into song. Is this Oscar Wilde or Noël Coward doing a party piece impression of him? ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ is given new voice in Douglas Livingstone’s musical. ‘A musical?!’, Dame Edith Evans might have exclaimed. But this diluted interpretation does [...]
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Irina Brown, Oscar Wilde, Regents Park, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Open Air Theatre on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Director: Irina Brown Reviewer: Honour Bayes “We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces” Lady Bracknell admits in Oscar Wilde’s delightfully nonsensical The Importance of Being Earnest, and so it would seem to be in Irina Brown’s rather outward facing production at the Open [...]
