A Woman of No Importance

2017 2h 13m EN

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Synopsis

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Olivier award-winner Eve Best (A Moon for the Misbegotten and Hedda Gabler) and BAFTA-nominated actress Anne Reid (Last Tango in Halifax) star in this new classically staged production of Oscar Wilde’s comedy directed by Dominic Dromgoole, former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe. The first play from the Classic Spring Theatre Company’s Oscar Wilde Season, A Woman of No Importance will be captured live for cinemas from the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. An earnest young American woman, a louche English lord, and an innocent young chap join a house party of fin de siècle fools and grotesques. Nearby a woman lives, cradling a long-buried secret. First performed in 1893, Oscar Wilde’s marriage of glittering wit and Ibsenite drama satirised the socially conservative world of the Victorian upper-class, creating a vivid new theatrical voice which still resonates today.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Eve Best
Mrs. Arbuthnot
Anne Reid
Lady Hunstanton
Dominic Rowan
Lord Illingworth
Eleanor Bron
Lady Caroline Pontefract
Harry Lister Smith
Gerald Arbuthnot
William Gaunt
Reverend Daubeny
William Mannering
Lord Alfred Rufford
Crystal Clarke
Miss Hester Worsley

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Dominic Dromgoole
Writers: Oscar Wilde

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ERA

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Released 9 years ago.

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CRAFT

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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CAST

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Eve Best and Anne Reid and Dominic Rowan carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt11390670 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Dominic Dromgoole directs.

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1Released 9 years ago.
2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
3Eve Best and Anne Reid and Dominic Rowan carry the top of the cast.
4IMDB entry: tt11390670 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
5Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.