Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance to be broadcast live to Oldham Odeon

Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance from Classic Spring Theatre Company to be Broadcast Live to Oldham Odeon

A performance of Oscar Wilde's 'A Woman of No Importance' will be broadcast live from the Vaudeville Theatre, London to Oldham Odeon on Tuesday 28 November. 

Classic Spring is a new theatre company from Dominic Dromgoole, former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, and its first season is a year-long celebration of the late Oscar Wild.

Mr Dromgoole will personally direct the first play A Woman of No Importance, starring Olivier Award-winning actor Eve Best as Mrs Arbuthnot and BAFTA-nominated Anne Reid as Lady Hunstanton, alongside Eleanor Bron and William Gaunt.

Multi-award-winning actor, director, comedian and playwright Kathy Burke will direct Lady Windermere’s Fan.

The Season will continue with 'Lady Windermere’s Fan' on Tuesday 20 March 2018 and 'An Ideal Husband' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest', with cinema broadcast dates to be announced in due course.

Mr Dromgoole said: “Oscar Wilde was a lover of the modern in all its forms, and I am sure the idea that his plays could now be broadcast live to so many people, in so many places, would have delighted him. We are very pleased that these glorious plays are going to reach an even wider audience and have life beyond their runs in the West End.”

Christine Costello, CEO, of theatrical distributor More2Screen, said: "We are completely delighted to be appointed as the theatrical distributor for this exciting theatre project. There is a huge appetite for live theatre broadcasts from London’s West End and the Oscar Wilde Season will be a very strong offering to our cinema partners for their 2017-18 programme.”

Cinema tickets on sale from 8 September.