Wilde return of Penelope
October 21, 2007
Penelope Keith (TVs The Good Life) is returning to the Theatre Royal in The Importance of Being Ernest , by Oscar Wilde, on October 29th for one week on a pre West End tour.
But she played the same role, Lady Bracknell, when she appeared at the Theatre Royal in March 1991. On that tour her co-stars were the real life husband wife vetrans actors Micheal Denison and Dulcie Gray. Both of these performers were major names in British Theatre and TV with Dulcie having played in over 40 West End Plays, 26 of them opposite her husband.
The play is a classic turn-of-the-century comedy of social manners, that includes the famous “A Handbag!” line .. Basically the plot revolves around Jack Worthing who is in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, daughter of the redoubtable Lady Bracknell, and cousin of his friend Algernon. They cannot wed until the mystery of his parentage (he was found in a handbag on Victoria Station) is resolved. Algernon discovers that Jack has a pretty young ward, Cecily, living at the Manor and visits her pretending to be Jack’s fictitious (and wicked) brother Ernest.
Dates & Times
29 October 2007 to 03 November 2007 19:30. Thu Mat 14:00. Sat Mat 14:30
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