It has been confirmed that David Suchet will star as Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.
Directed by Adrian Noble (Artistic Director of the RSC from 1990-2003), the new production will open in the West End (theatre to be announced) following a short UK Tour on Wednesday 1st July 2015 (previews from 24th June 2015). The production is produced by Kim Poster for Stanhope Productions and Nica Burns.
David Suchet is one of Britain’s most respected actors on stage, screen and television. He was awarded the CBE in 2010. David is best known for his role as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie’s Poirot and he has recently completed all 74 Poirot TV films which is the whole canon of Agatha Christie’s Poirot stories.
His other television work includes Great Expectations, Richard II, Hidden, Diverted, the award-winning BBC drama Maxwell (for which he won Best Actor International Emmy Award in 2008), The Life of Freud, Victoria and Albert, Murder in Mind and Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now (BAFTA nomination). Suchet’s film credits include Effie, The Bank Job, The In-Laws, A Perfect Murder, Executive Decision and Sunday (winner of the best film at Sundance Film Festival).
David's recent stage credits include Long Day’s Journey Into Night, All My Sons, Complicit (The Old Vic), Once in a Lifetime (National Theatre), The Last Confession (Theatre Royal Haymarket) and the Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest and Othello.
Another production of The Importance Of Being Earnest will open in the West End at the Harold Pinter Theatre from Thursday 17th July 2014 (previews from 27th June) until Saturday 20th September 2014. The cast of Lucy Bailey's production includes Nigel Havers and Siân Phillips.
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