Theatre Gossip: Stephen Fry to play Lady Bracknell in West End production of The Importance of Being Earnest?

According to The Daily Mail, Stephen Fry will play Lady Bracknell in a West End production of The Importance of Being Earnest. The article even suggests that the production will open at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the autumn of 2014, the same theatre where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is due to open June 2013. Please remember nothing has yet been confirmed.

Stephen Fry  apparently told The Daily Mail that his Lady Bracknell is "a little bit of Alastair Sim's Miss Fritton, clutching pearls; with a mixture of Stanley Baxter's 'Duchess' of Brenda'."

Producers David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers are reported to be continuing their talks with Stephen Fry. The play's development has apparently been going on for more than a year.

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