Split Second Productions is to reimagine Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest with only two actors and tour it to 20 venues across the UK.
The company was formed in 2014. Its vision is to “bring amazing stories to amazing spaces, using the power of theatre to unite communities and neighbourhoods”.
The tour will stop off at manor houses, town halls and castles, performing in “some of the most exquisite drawing rooms and great halls that this country has to offer—just as Lady Bracknell would deem fit”.
Writer and creator of the adaptation Bryan Hodgson will co-direct with Jaq Bessell who has worked across Europe, at the RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe and in New York.
The cast is to be confirmed. The tour starts at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford on Saturday 28 April and then takes in The Cross Barn, Odiham, Hampshire; Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire; Cardiff City Hall; Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire; Gloucester Blackfriars Priory; St Andrews Church, Chippenham; Westonbirt House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire; The Medieval Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire; Kings Weston House, Bristol; Glastonbury Town Hall, Somerset; Stroud Subscription Rooms, Gloucestershire; Cheltenham Ladies’ College; Bath Guildhall; Ashridge House, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire; Hylands Estate, Chelmsford; The Jockey Club Rooms, Newmarket; Leicester Cathedral; and Oxford Town Hall on Sunday 3 June.