{"id":2600,"date":"2025-01-22T14:57:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-gaystarnewscouk.gmg-staging.link\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2025-01-22T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:53:26","slug":"review-the-importance-of-being-earnest-national-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-gaystarnewscouk.gmg-staging.link\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/review-the-importance-of-being-earnest-national-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’ at the National Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By this point, performances of The Importance Of Being<\/em> Earnest<\/em> are as regular as afternoon tea. But the new National Theatre production stands out, invigorating Oscar Wilde\u2019s 1895 romantic comedy of errors with more bawdiness, colour, camp and stupidity than ever before. It feels more like a contemporary adaptation than a rerun (\u201cSavoy, Savoy, Savoy, Dalston Superstore,\u201d says Ncuti Gatwa\u2019s Algernon Moncrieff while reviewing receipts). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new show opens with a Diamonds Are A Girl\u2019s Best Friend<\/em>-inspired piano sequence, with Gatwa floating around the stage in Barbie pink silk. This sets the tone throughout the show \u2013 an unabashed celebration of fabulousness. The sight of his sock garters is another excellent eyeful, gender clashing gleefully with the fuschia gown and hinting at the dressing down Algy is about to experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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