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The Importance of Being Earnest review: Stephen Fry and Olly Alexander are wondrously camp
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City AM
Max Webster’s vivid new production has a go anyway: finding new life in a masterly adaptation that’ll please traditionalists too.
Imagine Stephen Fry wearing an iridescent leaf five times his girth and doing the Jarvis Cocker dance move from the Something Changed video and you’ll have an idea.
The Importance of Being Earnest: Stephen Fry and Olly Alexander slayAlso heading the billing is Years & Years singer Olly Alexander, who is adorably effete as leading man Algernon Moncrieff, who sustains an adorable playfulness.
But if The Importance of Being Earnest was supposed to be joyous and escapist, this crack team transport.
The Importance of Being Earnest plays at the Noel Coward Theatre until 10 January; nationaltheatre.org.uk