THEATRE ROYAL GOES WILDE
FOR DAVID SUCHET
The Importance of Being Earnest
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Monday 8 – Saturday
13 June 2015
Much-loved television star David Suchet is coming
to Newcastle Theatre Royal in a brand new guise, as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, Monday
8 – Saturday 13 June 2015.
Often described as ‘one
of the funniest plays in the English language’, Oscar Wilde’s superb satire on
Victorian manners is guaranteed to have Newcastle audiences laughing out
loud.
The play concerns the
lives of two bachelor friends, upper crust dandy Algernon Moncrieff and the
most reliable John Worthing J.P. who lead double lives to court the attentions
of the desirable Gwendolyn Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. The gallants must then
grapple with the uproarious consequences of their ruse, and with the formidable
Lady Bracknell, played by David Suchet.
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David Suchet as
Lady Bracknell
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David is one of Britain’s most respected actors
on stage and screen; he is winner of an International Emmy award, has been
nominated for numerous Olivier, Tony and BAFTA awards throughout his career,
and was awarded the CBE in 2010. David is best known for his role as the
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie’s Poirot. He has recently completed all 74 Poirot TV films, which is the whole canon of Agatha Christie’s Poirot stories.
But leaving the famous Frenchman behind and stepping
into the shoes of a woman was an offer that concerned the actor at first: “I
agreed to the idea with slight trepidation but once I’d looked into it and
realised that such notable actors as Brian Bedford on Broadway and Geoffrey
Rush in Australia had played Lady Bracknell, I could see that I’d be following
in a line of leading male performers and I felt more comfortable.”
David will be joined on stage by Michelle Dotrice
(playing Miss Prism), who many audience members will know from her TV appearances
as long-suffering wife Betty in Some
Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em and more recently on stage as Mrs Wilberforce in the
touring production of The Ladykillers.
The Importance of
Being Earnest also stars Emily
Barber as Gwendolen Fairfax, Michael Benz as John Worthing, Philip Cumbus as
Algernon Moncrieff, Imogen Doel as Cecily Cardew and Richard O’Callaghan as
Reverend Canon Chasuble.
The show is directed by Adrian Noble, former
artistic director at the RSC where his productions included: The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe (Stratford, Barbican), A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stratford, Barbican and Broadway) and The Secret Garden (Stratford, London). Noble’s extensive list of other directing
credits includes The Captain of Kopenick
for the National, The King’s Speech
in the West End, Cosi Fan Tutti at
the Opera De Lyon, Brand by Ibsen starring Ralph Fiennes and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at The London Palladium starring Michael
Ball.
Tickets:
The Importance of Being Earnest appears at Newcastle Theatre Royal from Mon 8 – Sat 13 June 2015 (Evenings: 7.30pm,
Matinees: Thur 2pm and Sat 2.30pm). Tickets from £14.50 (Save 50p per ticket by
booking online). Tickets can be purchased from the Theatre Royal Box Office on
08448 11 21 21 or select your own seat and book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk.
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