Oscar Wilde season

I wonder whether people may decide to go to just one, and whether they'll see one they've enjoyed before or one that's completely new to them?

Exactly why I, too - now that we know the initial choice of plays - can't get excited about this.  But here's hoping for something less well-known idc.

I am coming round to the idea of the season. I can't remember a major revival of A Woman of No Importance or Lady Windermere's fan in my 30 years of theatre-going, or one that got good enough reviews to make it worth going to see. Numerous Earnests, of course, and the fabulous Peter Hall/Martin Shaw An Ideal Husband, but the rest is, perhaps surprisingly, relatively rarely done these days.

Much more common in North America but i agree have always thought theatres here could do it much more and i include the National and RSC.

The Hampstead and the Young Vic have been known to use such a system. I don't often benefit from the Young Vic one because I'm buying the cheapest tickets anyway, but I've been successfully suckered into an entire season at the Hampstead with the promise of saving money before now.

It's taken me ages to work out that KB is Kenneth Branagh, not Kinky Boots.  That must be the only time in history the two have been mixed up!!!

A new Wilde themed 'aparthotel' will also be opening on the Strand in the autumn, so true devotees will be able to fully immerse themselves, especially with the Cadogan Hotel not due to reopen until 2018.

Surely, @ryan, you're far too young to remember such an unfortunate accident, or have you 'shopped your pic?

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure she's a lovely person, but doesn't Anne Reid only ever play Anne Reid.

Are you one of those people who pretends to donate to Charity in lieu?

Forgive me for cutting and pasting from an email:

"Emma Fielding, Dominic Rowan, Crystal Clarke, Harry Lister-Smith, Sam Cox, William Mannering, Paul Rider and Phoebe Fildes join the cast of A Woman of No Importance, alongside the previously announced Eve Best, Anne Reid, Eleanor Bron and William Gaunt.

Emma Fielding’s recent stage credits include Rapture, Blister, Burn (Hampstead Theatre) and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (Royal Shakespeare Company).

A regular on The Globe stage, Dominic Rowan, most recently starred as the Duke in Measure for Measure (2015). Other credits include starring opposite Hattie Morahan in Carrie Cracknell’s acclaimed production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (Young Vic/West End/BAM New York) and Jacob Thorne on ITV’s Law & Order.

American actor Crystal Clarke trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and then won a role in the feature film Star Wars: The Force Awakens from an open audition call of over 67,000 people. She will also appear in the forthcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi later this year."

There are also going to be a series of Oscar Wilde talks:

"Classic Spring is delighted to announce that Stephen Fry, Frank McGuinness, Franny Moyle and Merlin Holland will give pre-show talks before evening performances of A Woman of No Importance at the Vaudeville Theatre this autumn. Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde’s grandson will give the first address, offering his unique insight, entitled ‘The Remarkable reputation of Oscar Wilde’. Stephen Fry will reflect on ‘Playing Oscar’, having portrayed Wilde on the big screen in ‘Wilde’ (1997). Also included in the series are Franny Moyle (author of ‘Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde’) exploring Wilde’s women, and Frank McGuinness, who has adapted ‘De Profundis’ for the season will consider Wilde alongside Ibsen and Strindberg in ‘Wilde the European’."