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Oscar Wilde's former Mayfair home now for sale for £14 million

The townhouse on Half Moon Street inspired the setting for The Importance of Being Earnest

Evening Standard

Patricia Routledge brought humanity to an array of eccentrics, from Hyacinth Bucket to Lady Bracknell

The versatile star, who has died aged 96, portrayed absurdly pretentious and apparently grotesque characters with wonderful sympathy

The Guardian - UK

The Importance of Being Earnest: 'Stephen Fry's Lady Bracknell is the trump card'

3/5 An all-star cast takes on Oscar Wilde’s classic in hyper-camp style

Evening Standard

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Camilla surprised as she hosts Hollywood and stage stars at palace reception

The Queen was surprised with a scene from The Importance of Being Earnest, which she said was one of her favourite plays

The Independent UK

The Importance of Being Earnest review – Ncuti Gatwa leads a Wilde party of irresistible anarchic charm

Gatwa’s Algernon brings delightful mischief to a high-camp production pointing up the classic Victorian comedy’s subversive queerness

The Guardian - UK

The importance of freeing Earnest – without bursting Oscar Wilde’s ‘delicate bubble of fancy’

The 1895 comedy has been staged with age-blind and all-male casts and even David Suchet as Lady Bracknell. Now reinvented again, at the National Theatre, the trick is to be seriously funny

The Guardian - UK

Sharon D Clarke: ‘When I first started being seen for TV roles it was just endless nurses’

The actor on playing Lady Bracknell at the National, the groundbreaking gay love story of Mr Loverman, and getting married on stage

The Guardian - UK

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Alan Steele: 10 things that changed my life

I’ve got five siblings, but, from my teens forward, I didn’t see them or have contact with them for 25 years.

The National (Scotland)

The Importance of Being Earnest at the Rose Theatre review: boisterous and fresh take on Oscar Wilde’s classic

Award winning director Denzel Westley-Sanderson’s production borders on the unsubtle but it’s great fun

Evening Standard

The Importance of Being Earnest review – knockabout fun with Wilde’s genteel wit

Denzel Westley-Sanderson’s staging of the high-society comedy adds a welcome dose of playfulness amid the cucumber sandwiches

The Guardian - UK

‘Remarkable, revelatory, inspiring’: Yvonne Brewster pays tribute to actor Mona Hammond

The director remembers her friend, Talawa theatre company co-founder and EastEnders star as a rare talent with phenomenal attention to detail

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