John SchragI 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.”