Directed by Adrian Noble, this is a quick and often funny Earnest, though occasionally rather over-strenuous in its gurning and chest-clutching.
Michele Dotrice – whom you may remember as Frank Spencer’s wife Betty in Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em – plays plump Miss Prism, the governess.
Miss Prism has the hots for clergyman Mr Chasuble and when he suggests a walk in the garden she skips and dances with girlish excitement.
This is funny the first time. It raises a smile the second time. At the third time of asking it fades. Yet Miss Dotrice is a grand addition to the cast.
The younger players are Michael Benz and Philip Cumbus as Jack and Algernon, Emily Barber as a fine- featured Gwendolen and Imogen Doel as little Cecily.
David Suchet in drag makes a delightfully camp battleaxe: QUENTIN LETTS reviews The Importance Of Being Earnest!
You thought David Suchet was camp as TV’s mincing, moustache-smoothing Inspector Poirot?
Wait until you see him in the new Importance Of Being Earnest in which he plays the arguably more masculine figure of Lady Bracknell.
Yes, here is one of England’s great actors hamming it up cheerfully as the Great Gorgon Herself, self-made Aunt Augusta, Oscar Wilde’s terrifying combination of Cleopatra and Hyacinth Bucket by way (here) of Ronnie Barker in drag.
Directed by Adrian Noble, this is a quick and often funny Earnest, though occasionally rather over-strenuous in its gurning and chest-clutching.
Michele Dotrice – whom you may remember as Frank Spencer’s wife Betty in Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em – plays plump Miss Prism, the governess.
Miss Prism has the hots for clergyman Mr Chasuble and when he suggests a walk in the garden she skips and dances with girlish excitement.
This is funny the first time. It raises a smile the second time. At the third time of asking it fades. Yet Miss Dotrice is a grand addition to the cast.
The younger players are Michael Benz and Philip Cumbus as Jack and Algernon, Emily Barber as a fine- featured Gwendolen and Imogen Doel as little Cecily.
Directed by Adrian Noble, this is a quick and often funny Earnest, though occasionally rather over-strenuous in its gurning and chest-clutching.
Michele Dotrice – whom you may remember as Frank Spencer’s wife Betty in Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em – plays plump Miss Prism, the governess.
Miss Prism has the hots for clergyman Mr Chasuble and when he suggests a walk in the garden she skips and dances with girlish excitement.
This is funny the first time. It raises a smile the second time. At the third time of asking it fades. Yet Miss Dotrice is a grand addition to the cast.
The younger players are Michael Benz and Philip Cumbus as Jack and Algernon, Emily Barber as a fine- featured Gwendolen and Imogen Doel as little Cecily.