Reviews

• Eugenia

  May 14, 2018

  The play was beautiful, the scenery truly stunning and the cast amazing. Such a great show!

• Sophie

  Jan 8, 2018

  Fantastic performance. Great play.

• Emma R

  Jan 1, 2018

  A thoroughly enjoyable play, with an excellent cast. Loved Anne Reid - perfect comic timing!

• DianaK

  Dec 31, 2017

  Never having read or seen this play pleased to be acquainted with it. Enjoyed parts of it more than others. Some of the monologues I found tedious, although they generally contained a nugget or two of Wilde's wit. The play as a whole seems unbalanced. The first act and the last act could have come from two different genres of drama. The cast was excellent and it was thought provoking to have a black actress as the young American. Pleased to have seen this production but not one of my favourite Wilde plays.

• Andrew Edwards

  Dec 31, 2017

  We very much enjoyed seeing this play for the first time. Not Wilde's best play, perhaps, but full of wonderful wit and repartee, as always. Some very good acting and production, with excellent pacing, Main regret: we couldn't hear much of what two of the principal ladies, especially in Part Two, were saying. Others were very clear. In Wilde's plays, needless to say, every word is important.

• R J Burgess

  Dec 31, 2017

  Oscar Wilde's first play is entertaining, with lots of the expected witty one-liners, but does take a long time to get going until it reaches the main storyline. The performance I saw on the final day was enjoyable with uniformly good actors, and I liked the musical interludes - a nice idea. I am looking forward now to the other plays in this season, which I think are of rather higher quality.

• Yvonne from essex

  Dec 30, 2017

  Great performances from whole cast. Really enjoyable

• John

  Dec 29, 2017

  Superb ensemble playing. Anne Reid and Eleanor Bron were an absolute delight. It maybe my age but where I was sitting found the dialogue a little indistinguishable in the women's quiet scenes. However, overall an enjoyable evening. Looking forward to attending more in the OW season. Many thanks.

• J Febvre

  Dec 29, 2017

  I thought the play was very well acted, although I do not think it was Oscar Wilde's best play. I found some of the dialogue very difficult to hear ( i was in the dress circle) when the actors went to the back of the stage. However I would recommend this production to others.

• Sher

  Dec 29, 2017

  Fabulous! Anne Reid and Eleanor Bron stole the show!

• Isabel Oberman

  Dec 29, 2017

  A wonderfully produced play. The acting was superb .

• Martina

  Dec 29, 2017

  Overall I enjoyed the play. Anne Reid, as always was supberb. However, Eve Best as Mrs. Arbuthnot was incoherent most if the time.

• J Hough

  Dec 29, 2017

  Enjoyed the play and the excellent acting, but we were at the rear of the Grand Circle and sometimes had difficulty in hearing the dialogue. Often we heard laughter from the lower regions of the theatre but not from the people near us.

• Elle H

  Dec 29, 2017

  Beautifully written (of course), beautifully produced, perfectly cast, with gorgeous sets and costumes and quirky interludes over the set changes. A thoroughly enjoyable evening.

• Deelite

  Dec 28, 2017

  It was so bad we left at the interval. Poorly performed, lines fluffed, no energy, predictable performances.

• Richard Cave

  Dec 22, 2017

  The two principal leads were outstanding: original, complex creations. Anne Reid too was excellent but Eleanor Bron was overly mannered and largely inaudible. The youngsters in the cast were desperately in need of some acting training involving issues of voice production, while those unfortunately limited to silent roles or a few one-liners were downright awful, grossly overacting and with no conception of how not to disturb the focus of a scene. The production overall, the leads excepted, was so "traditional" that one might have been viewing it back in the 1950s.

• HT

  Dec 22, 2017

  Disappointing. Matinee a little slow

• NK

  Dec 22, 2017

  Very very good

• Chris

  Dec 22, 2017

  There is no doubt that the concerns raised in the play are very much dated, and therefore the play is really a period piece. However, the acting, especially Anne Reid - and in particular her wonderful musical interludes at the scene changes, was excellent. There are also many excellent amusing Wildean one-liners. All in all, a very pleasant pre-Xmas entertainment.

• Ralph Allwood

  Dec 21, 2017

  This was outstandingly good entertainment, with lots of the best Oscar Wilde lines, with a powerful political message.

• Moya

  Dec 19, 2017

  Really enjoyed it. Great cast. great writer.

• Sue D

  Dec 18, 2017

  A fabulous show well acted by a wonderful cast

• Alistair

  Dec 18, 2017

  Although the play starts rather slowly, with a lot of clever repartee but not much plot, this production moved to a really stirring climax. There can be little higher praise than to say that it was genuinely moving, with Eve Best and Anne Reid particularly impressive.

• Kim Narula

  Dec 12, 2017

  Thoroughly enjoyed it...if British aristocracy & dry wit is your cup of tea then this is the play to see!

• Chez

  Dec 10, 2017

  3 generations were in our group and they all thoroughly enjoyed the performance. Ann Reid and Eleanor Bron were particularly brilliant, their comic timing was superb.

• Alessandra

  Dec 10, 2017

  Yes, I know it's Oscar Wilde and yes the costumes were great... However I had expected something wittier and less old-fashioned. On top of that some of the actors (too many, if you ask me) were not convincing at all in their roles. I would say this was an average performance. Sorry

• Jo browne

  Dec 10, 2017

  What an amazing evening. An amazing performance. Anne Reid was wonderful but many other cast members too. Oscar Wilde at his best, a true lesson to be learned even in this day and age re double standards.

• Patricia Joans

  Dec 8, 2017

  The female character’s voices did not project well enough therefore we lost a lot of the story. The actress who took the part of the mother of the young boy was particularly difficult to understand as she mumbled her words as if she was having a chat with a friend making it impossible to hear what she saying. I think an amateur company coukd have done a better job without the ticket price of the West End

• Jo

  Dec 8, 2017

  Overall a very accomplished performance. Highly entertaining especially Anne Reid’s singing ! Slight reservations about Hester. Voice not quite convincing. Great set and costumes. Wilde is still relevant today.

• Anita

  Dec 8, 2017

  This is my first experience of oscar Wilde, hopefully not the last, I loved every Minute of this atmospheric, funny, witty and engaging play , Anne Reid was the star for Me but all the actors were faultless,, what a treat!

• David

  Dec 6, 2017

  Excellent production with some stand out performances. Sometimes it was a little difficult to hear what was said but this was probably my poor hearing rather than the actor's ability to throw their voices !!.

• John Bradshaw

  Dec 5, 2017

  Diction of principal actresses not always clear five rows from the stage in the Stalls: mumbling and garbling. Slow down and speak up. Try and make us feel involved in the action- not merely spectators. Otherwise quite an enjoyable, well dressed, well lit production

• Dr George Bartholomew

  Dec 5, 2017

  Delightful play well acted good sets very funny

• Clementine

  Dec 5, 2017

  Absolutely brilliant performance! Such great and highly talented entertainers.

• Roger Forster

  Dec 5, 2017

  Booking email sent to incorrect address

• Paul Merrett

  Dec 3, 2017

  It was thoroughly interesting although I could have done without the songs. They were good but I like dialogue. Still, my wife and I enjoyed the performance and are looking forward to Lady Windermere's Fan and an Ideal Husband.

• AS

  Dec 3, 2017

  Enjoyed the evenung but we were seated at the top in the back row and some of the actors were sometimes hard to hear. Not just my hearing....my husband who has very good hearing also felt the same.

• C Barwell

  Dec 2, 2017

  Delightfully old fashioned

• susanschon

  Dec 2, 2017

  well acted, well showcased. although the play mocks the society of its day, the issues presented are still relevant. Plenty of Wildean epigrams, but also real feeling. Thank you for a good evening.

• Bella

  Dec 2, 2017

  I really enjoyed the play, Oscar Wilde is my favourite writer. The costumes, the scenes and the delivery of the play was brilliant until... I saw the black woman casted for the part of the American. There were no black people in Victorian England and not even in America in the high society. This pc bs that is infecting the art world needs to stop. I cannot be colour blind and she was shrieky and shouty, looked like the help of the aristocrats and clearly ruined a brilliant play.

• Jo Proctor

  Dec 1, 2017

  Anne Reid and the rest of the cast were superb in this performance of A Woman of No Importance .

• Carole Hecht

  Nov 30, 2017

  The play was excellent, the cast outstanding.

• Erika & Simon Hall

  Nov 30, 2017

  It was compelling, entertaining, fun, with just the right tinge of sad - Congratulations to the wonderful cast and all involved, we thoroughly enjoyed it!

• Irina Dean

  Nov 29, 2017

  This is the best West End play in years. The cast was absolutely fabulous: perfect mix of masterful "classical" performance ( Anne Reid, Eleanor Bron, William Gaunt, Sam Cox) and brilliant young talent (Harry lister Smith, Crystal Clarke). Eve Best was totally amazing, the way she played her character reminded me of Bolero. I found her monologue to her son opening up all her secrets and feeling was the most touching and at the same time powerful moment in the play - it made me cry. This is what real theatre should do - it should bring out the best of you! Thoroughly enjoyed performance by Emma fielding - she's got a psarkle in her eye that distinguishes a true actor from a craftsman, Stage set and costumes were exceptional as well. Overall, this is a true theatre in it's glory, the theatre that I was feeling we are loosing and I can see that it's still alive. If I lived in london I would see this play a few more times. Exceptional experience for true lovers of classic theatre!

• Julian

  Nov 28, 2017

  Terrific! Wonderful production - great acting and lovely set.

• DeeDee

  Nov 27, 2017

  Really enjoyed the excellent cast who worked so well together. The musical interludes were also very entertaining. Would thoroughly recommend this play.

• Kathrine Tollis

  Nov 26, 2017

  A good lively production from an excellent cast.

• Patrick

  Nov 26, 2017

  Excellent

• Oscar Wilde fan

  Nov 26, 2017

  This play starts off with an inestimable advantage: it's by Oscar Wilde. This particular play addresses power relationships between men and women, as well as class and money - so it's still (depressingly) topical despite having been written in the 19th century. We enjoyed this production. However, the younger cast members didn't seem to have the skill level of the older cast members when it came to projecting their voices: it was difficult to hear some of the dialogue up in the top tier of seats, particularly in the opening set. We also felt the production dragged a bit in places. The most successful Wilde plays we've seen tend to zip along quite a bit faster and with greater energy.

• Suzanne

  Nov 25, 2017

  The ‘Woman of No Importance’ performance last night was a sparkling, amusing and polished performance by the main protagonists, ably supported by the rest of the cast. The 3 musical numbers were excellent and provided a wonderful interlude while scenery changes occurred. I loved the whole production.