The National’s all-star revival of The Importance of Being Earnest brings new life to the wit and wonder of a comedy classic. Hayley Maitland meets the cast. Photographs by Scott Trindle. Styling by Ola Ebiti
“Can you imagine,” Ncuti Gatwa gasps, “what Oscar Wilde would think of all of this?” It’s the sort of hot, airless July day that makes anyone with a British passport a little giddy, and we’re sprawled in the attic of a five-storey Palladian town house, gazing out at Marylebone’s Cavendish Square Gardens through sash windows.
As Scanlen, 25, who has embodied two starkly different versions of girlhood in HBO’s Sharp Objects and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, tells me, she has every intention of bringing a wealth of “naughtiness” to the role of Jack’s ward – normally styled as a wide-eyed 18-year-old with her “head in the clouds” – including playing up her frisson of erotic tension with Gwendolen during their impromptu tea for two. “My goodness, we’re going to have a lot of fun,” Gatwa says with a cackle.
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