![]() Unexpectedly she encounters him here in the shape of Lord Illingworth, another guest. Rachel Arbuthnot is a woman wronged she has lived in seclusion and brought up her son alone, when her lover – on the advice of his own mother – refused to marry her. But it does go on, slightly aimlessly, for nearly two acts.Īnd then Eve Best’s Mrs Arbuthnot arrives and her passion explodes the play. In the mouths of actors such as Eleanor Bron, Anne Reid, Emma Fielding and Sam Cox, the words fly around happily and it’s all quite amusing if a little arch. On Jonathan Fensom‘s handsome set, and in corseted silk, a group of well-born people sit around and exchange witticisms about the state of things. It is a bit like being transported back to 1893, when the play was first performed. This revival of A Woman of No Importance, which launches Dominic Dromgoole‘s Wilde season, performed by his new Classic Theatre Company, to a large extent explains why. Apart from the ubiquitous The Importance of Being Earnest, nowadays we quote Oscar Wilde and mull over the meaning of his life, far more than we watch his plays. ![]()
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