Alistair Newton’s adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest, on now at London's Grand Theatre, makes the play’s queer subtext just plain text
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/importance-of-being-earnest-grand-theatre-9.7141790?cmp=rss
Only got halfway through National Theatre At Home's #TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest before it went off YouTube.
Fortunately I took note of the promo code TIOBE50 and signed on for two months half price.
Not spon-con, I swear, just informing my fellow broke housebound theatre tragics. 💜

The Importance Of Being Earnest (Full Show) | Take Your Seats | National Theatre
The full show is available until next Thursday. It's a super snarky cringe comedy, and the cast is outstanding. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
It's all part of a fundraiser, so if you like it, throw the National Theatre a few quid.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=obX-HGs-PS8 #theatre #theImportanceOfBeingEarnest

I watched the UK National Theatre’s production of “The Importance of Being Earnest” starring Ncuti Gatwa as Algernon yesterday, after they made it freely available on YouTube. It was so much fun! I love that a comedy written ~130 years ago can still be so funny and on-point.
There is some covertly queer content in the play that is played overtly in this production — even over-the-top sometimes. My favourite performance was Sharon D Clarke as Lady Bracknell, played as a formidable Carribean Auntie.
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“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obX-HGs-PS8
Noch bis 18.03. online.
#nationaltheatre #theimportanceofbeingearnest


