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
deadline.comDoctor 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 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.” Webster and the NT’s casting director Alastair Coomer have also assembled Richard Cant (Bleak House, The Way We Live Now) to play Reverend Canon Chasuble and comic genius Amanda Lawrence (Star Wars, Suffragette) as Miss Prism in the 1895 satire, which will run in the NT’s Lyttelton Theatre from November 20 through January 25, 2025.
The director, clearly, has a way of attracting talent from the BBC’s long-running science fiction drama about an extra-terrestrial who travels through time in a Tardis.
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