A Woman of No Importance at the Vaudeville Theatre

Dominic Dromgoole's Oscar Wilde Season will be broadcast live to cinema's.   Dominic's new theatre company Classic Spring has partnered with More2Screen to undertake the live broadcast from the Vaudeville Theatre. The first of four plays by the Irish comic master, A Woman of No Importance, will be broadcast live on 28 November 2017, followed by the celebrated Lady Windermere’s Fan on Tuesday 20 March 2018. Christine Costello, CEO, More2Screen comments: "There’s a huge appetite for live theatre broadcasts from London’s West End and the Oscar Wilde Season will be a very strong offering to our cinema partners for their 2017-18 programme.” Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Classic Spring, comments: “Oscar Wilde was a lover of the modern in all its forms, and I’m sure the idea that his plays could now be broadcast live to so many people, in so many places, would have delighted him. We are very pleased that these glorious plays are going to reach an even wider audience and have life beyond their runs in the West End.” Dominic Dromgoole will personally direct the first play A Woman of No Importance, starring Olivier Award-winning actor Eve Best as Mrs Arbuthnot and BAFTA-nominated Anne Reid as Lady Hunstanton, alongside Eleanor Bron and William Gaunt. Cinema tickets on sale from 8 September 2017. Buy tickets to A Woman Of No Importance Buy tickets to Lady Windermere's Fan   A Woman of No Importance runs from 6 October 2017 until 30 December 2017; Lady Windermere’s Fan runs from 12 January 2018 until 7 April 2018 at the Vaudeville Theatre.

Dominic Dromgoole's Classic Spring confirms Stephen Fry will feature in a series of Wilde Talks. The pre-show talks before evening performances of A Woman of No Importance at the Vaudeville Theatre this autumn will also feature Oscar Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland, Frank McGuinness and Franny Moyle. Fry will reflect on ‘Playing Oscar’, having portrayed Wilde on the big screen in ‘Wilde’ (1997). Merlin Holland will give the first address, offering his unique insight, entitled ‘The Remarkable Reputation of Oscar Wilde’; Franny Moyle (author of ‘Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde’) will explore Wilde’s women; and Frank McGuinness, who has adapted ‘De Profundis’ for the season will consider Wilde alongside Ibsen and Strindberg in ‘Wilde the European’. Dominic Dromgoole will direct the first play A Woman of No Importance, starring Olivier Award-winning actor Eve Best as Mrs Arbuthnot, alongside Anne Reid, Eleanor Bron and William Gaunt. Buy tickets to A Woman Of No Importance Buy tickets to Lady Windermere's Fan Multi-award-winning actor, director, comedian and playwright Kathy Burke will then direct Lady Windermere’s Fan. The season will continue with the titles An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, with casting and creatives to be announced in due course. A Woman of No Importance runs from 6 October 2017 until 30 December 2017; Lady Windermere’s Fan runs from 12 January 2018 until 7 April 2018 at the Vaudeville Theatre.

Last Tango in Halifax star Anne Reid will play Lady Hunstanton in Dominic Dromgoole's upcoming production of A Woman Of No Importance. Reid's long career includes 18 million viewers tuning in for her death in the iconic soap Coronation Street, Victoria Wood's much loved Dinner Ladies, Ladies of Letters with Maureen Lipman and for the last five years Last Tango In Halifax with Derek Jacobi. Her love of cabaret has seen her perform at the Crazy Coqs club in London repeatedly over the last few years and branch out into musical theatre with performances in Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods (Royal Opera House) and A Little Night Musica (Palace Theatre). Reids other theatre roles include performances in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic which starred Sheridan Smith, Dimetos (Donmar Warehouse) and Happy Now? (National Theatre). Dromgoole's production of Oscar Wilde's classic will also features Eve Best, Eleanor Bron and William Gaunt . Buy tickets for A Woman Of No Importance A Woman of No Importance runs from 6 October 2017 until 30 December 2017 at the Vaudeville Theatre.

Dominic Dromgoole will stage a year-long celebration of Oscar Wilde at the Vaudeville Theatre. The former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe has formed a new theatre company to stage plays of great proscenium playwrights in the venues they were written for. Dromgoole's first season - The Oscar Wilde Season - aims to offer a much fuller picture of Wilde and reveal the much-loved playwright as the brilliant renegade he was in his own time. The core of the season will be 4 Wilde plays (A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest), interspersed with a curated series of 'interludes' and ‘Wilde Talks’. The 'Wilde Talks' will reveal the deep current of radicalism and subversiveness that runs through all of Wilde’s writing. First up will be Eve Best in A Woman of No Importance (6 Oct - 30 Dec), directed by Dromgoole, followed by Lady Windermere's Fan (12 Jan - 7 Apr), directed by Gimme Gimme actor Kathy Burke. Frank McGuinness will adapt De Profundis for the stage and there will be a lightly staged new folk-opera by Award-winning songwriter Guy Chambers titled The Selfish Giant in April 2018. Tall Stories will produce Wilde Creatures, a new family show based on Wilde’s fairy tales. Dates and casting for An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest Tickets are now on sale for: A Woman of No Importance and Lady Windermere's Fan at the Vaudeville Theatre, London.