directed by Marianne Elliott
12 January - 26 February 2000

In a beautiful country house an urbane gathering of wits and wags attend a high society dinner party. Amidst the gossiping and philosophizing, the dangerously seductive Lord Illingworth is about to come face to face with his past. Can the disgraced Mrs Arbuthnot overturn twenty years of pain and bitterness or will polite society conspire to keep her story untold?

Oscar Wilde's lacerating attack on moral hypocrisy and aristocratic double standards is groundbreaking and gripping drama. Crafted with Wilde's hallmark wit and biting humour. A Woman of No Importance is a remarkable account of one woman's struggle against a society that values image above integrity.

SPONSORED BY ADDLESHAW BOOTH & CO

CASTING

(in order of appearance in the script)

Lady Caroline Pontefract      Gaye Brown

Sir John Pontefract      Steven Beard

Miss Hester Worsley      Alison McKenna

Lady Hunstanton      Richenda Carey

Gerald Arbuthnot      Paul Chequer

Mrs Allonby      Diana Hardcastle

Lady Stutfield      Pauline Turner

Mr Kelvil, M.P. Alexi     Kaye Campbell

Lord Illingworth     Jonny Phillips

Farquar + male cover    Ralph Casson

Mrs Arbuthnot     Geraldine Alexander

The Archdeacon Daubeny     Simon Carter

Alice, the Maid + female cover    Gemma Bentley

DIRECTOR     MARIANNE ELLIOTT

DESIGNER    LEZ BROTHERSTON

LIGHTING    CHRIS DAVEY

SOUND     ROBERT TICE

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR     SUZANNE BELL

Company Manager     Louise Tischler

Stage Manager    Louise Ormerod

Deputy Stage    Manager Patricia Davenport

Assistant Stage    Manager Linda Wise