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The Importance of Being Earnest

Summary
1988 BBC production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
Theatre play
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 29 May 1988
Time
8.10-10.00pm
Series
Theatre Night
Channel
BBC2
Production company
BBC

Credits

Director
Stuart Burge
Producer
Shaun Sutton
Lighting
Alan Horne
Playwright
Oscar Wilde
Composer
Ilona Sekacz
Designer
David Myerscough-Jones
Script Editor
Stuart Griffiths
Cast
Peter CopelyGribsby
Rupert FrazerAlgernon Moncrieff
Gemma JonesMiss Prism
Alec McCowenDr Chasuble
Paul McGannJohn Worthing, J.P.
Natalie OgleCecily Cardew
Joan PlowrightLady Bracknell
John QuarmbyMerriman
Amanda RedmanGwendolen Fairfax
John WoodnuttLane

Additional details

Play tags
19th-century setting; comedy; Edwardian drama

Audiovisual sources

Title
The Importance of Being Earnest (BBC, 1988)
Archive
BBC Information and Archives [more information]
Address

White City
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 26 May 1988 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing, p. 45, with photograph

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