Casting update for A Woman Of No Importance at the Haymarket Theatre from 10 Sep 03

Casting update for A Woman Of No Importance at the Haymarket Theatre from 10 Sep 03

Futher casting has been announced for A Woman Of No Importance by Oscar Wilde, which opens at the Haymarket Theatre on 16 Sep 03, following previews from 10 Sep 03, and booking to 24 Jan 04.

Prunella Scales (Lady Hunstanton ) and Samantha Bond (Mrs Arbuthnot) are to join Rupert Graves (Lord Illingworth ) and Rachel Stirling.

In this play, directed by Adrian Noble, Lord Illingworth , who is rakish, attractive and utterly amoral, dismisses Mrs Arbuthnot as A Woman Of No Importance but still aims to employ the impressionable Gerald Arbuthnot as his secretary. What he doesn't know is that Gerald is also his own son - the product of a fling he had with Mrs Arbuthnot. When Illingworth makes a move to seduce Gerald's fiancée, Mrs Arbuthnot decides that enough is enough...