After playing successfully to packed houses in the West End and followed by a short five week tour, The Bunbury Company of Players' production of Oscar Wilde's much loved and witty masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest will come to The King’s Theatre Edinburgh in November 2015.
An experienced cast of comedic actors will reunite as The Bunbury Company of Players to reprise their roles from the West End and introduce Oscar Wilde’s comedic farce to new audiences.
In The Importance of Being Earnest dependable, John Worthing, J.P. and upper class playboy Algernon Moncrieff (Nigel Havers) who feel compelled to create different identities to pursue two eligible ladies Cecily Cardew (Christine Kavanagh) and Gwendolyn Fairfax. The misadventures which result from their subterfuge, their brushes with the redoubtable Lady Bracknell (Siân Phillips) and the uptight Miss Prism result in a farcical comic plot.
Dubbed by Wilde himself as “a trivial comedy for serious people”, the production delivers an entirely faithful but unique setting to this well-loved theatrical comedy. Director Lucy Bailey, comic novelist Simon Brett and theatre designer William Dudley have created a new context for the play that earned top reviews last year.
‘Earnest gets a terrific twist’
*****The Daily Mail
‘Thoroughly likeable...Sparkling fun’
****The Times
Tuesday 10 to Saturday 14 November 2015
Tickets on sale to Friends 23 February an on general sale from 2 March