Londoner’s Diary
Stephen Fry was looking decidedly low-key in an all black outfit at the press night after-party for The Importance of Being Earnest. The casual observer would never have known that hours earlier, he was on stage in a ruffly green dress with perfectly coiffed hair and giant pearl earrings, as the fearsome Lady Bracknell. After a hit run at the National Theatre, director Max Webster’s revival of Oscar Wilde’s play has moved to the Noël Coward theatre, and has somehow become even camper. It stars Olly Alexander, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Jessica Whitehurst and Kitty Hawthorne. Actors Sir Ian McKellen, Natascha McElhone and Omari Douglas went along to watch.
