Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Adapted and Directed by Rory Stuart

A trivial comedy for serious people…

Mistaken identity and romance collide with cucumber sandwiches and a handbag in Oscar Wilde’s much loved comedy of manners.

Jack loves Gwendolen. Algernon loves Cecily, though both women are in love with Ernest - much to the disapproval of the formidable Lady Bracknell. Unfortunately, Ernest doesn’t actually exist, and when his true identity is revealed, being earnest takes on a whole new meaning!

Following the success of their productions of The Twelve Pound Look and A Doll’s House, HangFire returned to the Gala Theatre with their fast-paced and cut down adaptation of Wilde’s masterpiece.

  • Jacob Anderton

    JACK WORTHING

    Selected theatre credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest (HangFire Theatre), Rainbird (Cloud Nine Theatre), The Frights (Alphabetti), Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, As You Like It and Macbeth (Theatre Space NE), Our Kids Names / 10 Minutes To (Live Theatre), The Cut Girls (Twenty Seven Productions), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Gala Theatre).

    Selected Film and TV credits include: Downton Abbey, Dark Angel, Coronation Street, 13 Graves, The Code, Vengeance 2, A Very Uncommon Christmas.

    Jacob has recently completed filming on Give Them Wings.

  • William Wyn Davies

    ALGERNON MONCRIEFF

    Trained at Northern Stage (NORTH 2016) as well as Live Theatre and Hull Truck in the regional Young Actors’ Ensemble.

    Selected theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet Are Dead (Charioteer Theatre Italian Tour), Once Upon A Storytime (The Customs House), The Filleting Machine (Blowin’ A Hooley), Heaven Eyes (Theatre Sans Frontieres UK Tour), Growth, Animal Farm, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Manifesto For A New City (Northern Stage).

  • Viktoria Kay

    LADY BRACKNELL / MISS PRISM

    Trained at East 15 Acting School.

    Selected theatre credits include: The Twelve Pound Look, A Doll’s House and The Importance of Being Earnest (HangFire Theatre), Rattle & Roll (Open Clasp), Perfect Wedding, The Man and the Donkey, Romeo and Juliet, Waiting for Gateaux (The Customs House), A Funny Thing Happened on the way to Durham, Aladdin (Gala Theatre), The Noise (Northern Stage / Leeds Playhouse), Jane Eyre (Hull Truck & Tour), Chalet Lines (Live Theatre / Bush Theatre), The Pitmen Painters (National Tour / West End) and Cooking with Elvis (Bolton Octagon) for which she won the Manchester Evening News Theatre Award.

    Selected film and TV credits include: The Song of Names, I, Daniel Blake, Sunday for Sammy 2018, Wolfblood, Harriet’s Army, Vera and Emmerdale.

  • Eilidh Talman

    GWENDOLEN FAIRFAX

    Selected theatre credits include: Rattle Snake, Love Should Never Be Abusive (Open Clasp Theatre), Henry IV pt. 1, Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Space NE), Soulmates, The Birth of Frederica (Northern Stage) , Shakespeare’s Speakeasy (Alphabetti) and Once Upon A Storytime (The Customs House).

    Selected Film and TV credits include Zominic (Duffel Films), Ripper (Eighties Doubt Films) and It’s Not About You (Meerkat Films).

    In 2019, she received a special mention at the North East Monologue Slam, run by Triforce Creative Network.

  • Lauren Waine

    CECILY CARDEW

    Trained at LIPA where she was awarded The Laurence Olivier Bursary Award.

    Selected theatre credits include Robinson Crusoe and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Gala Theatre), Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse), The War of the Worlds (Northern Stage and Tour), Wormtown (The Customs House / Alphabetti Theatre), Dr Faustus (Sam Wanamaker Festival, The Globe), Pericles (Brighton Open Air Theatre), RENT! (Paul McCartney Auditorium) and Three Jumpers (Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

    Selected Film and TV credits include The Dumping Ground (BBC) and Vera (ITV).

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