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Breaking Baz: ‘Doctor Who’ & ‘Barbie’s’ Ncuti Gatwa Stars With Sharon D Clarke And Hugh Skinner In Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’ At UK’s National Theatre; ‘Live Aid’ Musical Transfers To Toronto
Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa and W1A’s Hugh Skinner will star in a National Theatre revival of Oscar Wilde’s play about courtships, betrothals, and confused identities. The Importance of Being Earnest also stars three-time Olivier Award winner Sharon D. Clarke playing the imperious Lady Bracknell. Director Max Webster, making his NT debut, told Deadline exclusively that casting Gatwa and […]
Director Max Webster, making his NT debut, told Deadline exclusively that casting Gatwa and Skinner as the idle bachelors Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing -both leading double lives – who pursue two young women, both determined to marry someone called Ernest, and with Clarke as the dreadnaught dowager decreeing her own rules of class, taste, and propriety, was “a dream come true.” The Live Aid musical Just For One Day, which played at the Old Vic in London, will be announcing soon that the show directed by Luke Shepard will transfer to Toronto’s Ed Mirvish Theatre next January for a limited run. I saw two,and a troupe of potentials, way out in the south London district of Peckham, which is home to the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, at a performance final year students gave of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday In the Park With George.
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