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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, told Deadline exclusively that casting Gatwa and Skinner as the idle bachelors Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing -both leading double lives – who pursue two young women, both determined to marry someone called Ernest, and with Clarke as the dreadnaught dowager decreeing her own rules of class, taste, and propriety, was “a dream come true.”
Webster and the NT’s casting director Alastair Coomer have also assembled Richard Cant (Bleak House, The Way We Live Now) to play Reverend Canon Chasuble and comic genius Amanda Lawrence (Star Wars, Suffragette) as Miss Prism in the 1895 satire, which will run in the NT’s Lyttelton Theatre from November 20 through January 25, 2025.
The director, clearly, has a way of attracting talent from the BBC’s long-running science fiction drama about an extra-terrestrial who travels through time in a Tardis.
Recently, Webster directed David Tenant, a famous Doctor Who, as Macbeth at the Donmar Warehouse. It also starred Cush Jumbo, who played Lois Habiba in Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood.
Macbeth will transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre on October 1. Webster told me that “fingers are crossed” to take Macbeth to Broadway. “There are conversations,” though he cautioned, “One step at a time.”
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
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