Ncuti Gatwa is about to star in Oscar Wilde’s The Significance of Being Earnest on the Nationwide Theatre. (Getty)
Physician Who star Ncuti Gatwa is about to look in a Nationwide Theatre adaptation of The Significance of Being Earnest.
Former Intercourse Training actor Gatwa is perhaps preoccupied with all issues Physician Who proper now, contemplating the brand new season begins in simply a few weeks’ time, however he’s simply secured a task because the rich-yet-listless bachelor Algernon Moncrieff within the Oscar Wilde comedy.
The Significance of Being Earnest opens on the Nationwide Theatre, London, on 20 November and run till 25 January 2025.
Gatwa will function alongside The Witcher and Fleabag star Hugh Skinner, who will play the present’s lead, Jack Worthing – a seemingly respectable man with robust morals, who truly leads a double life.
The solid additionally contains Purple, White & Royal Blue‘s Sharon D Clarke as Woman Bracknell, Star Wars actress Amanda Lawrence as Miss Prism, and It’s A Sin and My Policeman‘s Richard Cant as Canon Frederick Chasuble.
Actors in different main elements within the play, together with the 2 primary love pursuits, Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax, are but to be introduced.
Olivier and Tony-Award-winning Max Webster, presumably greatest recognized for his stage adaptation of novel Lifetime of Pi, will direct the play.
The Significance of Being Earnest, first carried out in 1895, is commonly considered essentially the most notable play by homosexual playwright Wilde, however it additionally marked the start of the demise of his profession.
After its debut, The Marquess of Queensberry, whose son Lord Alfred Douglas – aka Bosie – was Wilde’s lover on the time, deliberate to disrupt the present by handing the playwright a bouquet of rotten greens.
Wilde sued the marquess for libel, however the trial unearthed proof of the author’s homosexuality, and he was imprisoned for gross indecency.
Even earlier than the brand new season of the hit sci-fi has begun, returning Physician Who showrunner Russell T Davies has teased “great things” to come back subsequent yr.
The primary two episodes of the brand new seaso will drop on BBC iPlayer early on the morning of Saturday 11 Could forward of airing on BBC later that day.
Tickets for The Significance of Being Earnest can be found from 23 Could.