His scores include An Ideal Husband, Othello, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Diary of Anne Frank, the 2007 version of St. Trinian's the 2009 version of Dorian Gray, and the 2013 ITV drama series Mr Selfridge.
Drawing room comedy is also sometimes called the "comedy of manners." Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and several of the plays of Noël Coward are typical works of the genre.
After adopting the nickname of Bunbury, taken from the Oscar Wilde stage play The Importance of Being Earnest, the musician teamed up with Héroes del Silencio, becoming a major number in the Hispanic rock scene.
The Wilde Theatre was officially opened by The Princess Anne on 15 May 1984 which due to the local association with Oscar Wilde was named after him and the first performance being The Importance of Being Earnest.
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She graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 1988, and has since acted both at Det Norske Teatret (the Norwegian Theater) and at Nationaltheatret (the National Theatre), in roles such as "Nora" in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, "Masja" in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, and "Gwendolen Fairfax" in Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest.
With productions such as The Importance of Being Earnest, with Gielgud and Edith Evans, and Hamlet, with Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft, Beaumont made large profits from this ostensibly charitable enterprise.
Wicks completed a UK tour in 2007 with the production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, that co-starred her husband Tom Butcher and in 2009/10 toured the UK in "TheHolly and The Ivy" playing the drunken and damaged Margaret Gregory.
Petherbridge has performed in stage musicals, including Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White, Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars, The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, Coco by André Previn and Alan Jay Lerner, and most recently a musical version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
He continued to appear on the New York stage both on Broadway (Three Sisters, Two Shakespearean Actors, Arms and the Man) and off-Broadway (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Glass Menagerie, Sly Fox and Our Town).
Brody has performed in UK performances of plays such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Glass Menagerie.
Stage appearances include The Importance of Being Earnest (in which he appeared as "John Worthing", inheriting the role from Geoffrey Rush) — also appearing in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Orpheus in the Underworld, and the Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy operas Ruddigore and The Mikado .
Watson was primarily a stage actress, starring in such plays as Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, Heartbreak House, Ghosts, The Importance of Being Earnest and Pride and Prejudice.
Eisenhuth was a weekly columnist for The Bulletin from 1996 to 2002, resigning in 2002 after a much-publicised dispute with editor-in-chief Paul Bailey, who cut sections from her column where she cited Oscar Wilde's play, The Importance of Being Earnest and linked his critique of media hypocrisy with recent coverage of much-criticised politician Cheryl Kernot.
Teacake features as a passing subject of discussion in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
Her earliest theatrical performances include The Importance of Being Earnest with the Touring Players, Bury The Dead at New York's Cherry Lane Theatre, and Machinal.
She has played in "Thessaloniki conspirators," "In the Moon Room", "Confusion", "That's absurd," "The Importance of Being Earnest", etc. and participated in numerous theatrical performances of festival projects in countries of Europe such as Hungary (Budapest and Szeged), Georgia, Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Russia (Yaroslavl) Italy (Urbino and Rome), France (Avignon) and Romania (Iași).
The books also contain many quotes referring to famous pieces of Victorian Literature like Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Alfred Tennyson.