Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa and W1A’s Hugh Skinner will star in a National Theatre revival of Oscar Wilde’s play about courtships, betrothals, and confused identities. The Importance of Being Earnest also stars three-time Olivier Award winner Sharon D. Clarke playing the imperious Lady Bracknell.
Director Max Webster, making his NT debut, said the production was “a dream come true.” He said that he’s “always loved” Wilde’s classic, “and the fact that it’s so genuinely funny. I think it must be one of the funniest and most brilliant bits of English language ever written.” Webster also observed that “for all its wonderfulness and joyfulness, it’s also quite subversive.”
It will run in the National’s Lyttelton theatre from 20 November to 25 January.
