David Suchet

Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, starring David Suchet as Lady Bracknell, will open at the Vaudeville Theatre in June.

'In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing' (Gwendolen, Act III).

Wilde's superb satire on Victorian manners is one of the funniest plays in the English language - the delightful repartee and hilarious piercing of hypocrisy and pomposity can still make you laugh out loud.

Two bachelor friends, the adorable dandy Algernon Moncrieff and the utterly reliable John Worthing JP, lead double lives to court the attentions of the exquisitely desirable Gwendolyn Fairfax and Cecily Cardew.

The gallants must then grapple with the riotous consequences of their deceptions, and with the formidable Lady Bracknell.