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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MORE2SCREEN TO BROADCAST POPULAR THEATRE CLASSIC
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
LIVE TO CINEMAS 8 OCTOBER 2015
Issued London, UK – 11am, Wednesday 18 March 2015
More2Screen is to broadcast Oscar Wilde’s much-loved classic play, The Importance Of Being Earnest, LIVE to
cinemas from London’s Vaudeville Theatre on Thursday 8 October 2015. Produced by Kim Poster and Nica
Burns, this new production will star one of Britain’s best-known stage, screen and television actors, David
Suchet (familiar to millions of TV viewers as the detective Hercule Poirot) who will play the role of the
formidable Lady Bracknell.
With its high farce and witty dialogue The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s most enduringly
popular play and it fizzes with wit as he delights in debunking social pretensions. Two bachelor friends,
aristocratic dandy Algernon Moncrieff and the most reliable John Worthing J.P., lead double lives to court the
attentions of the desirable Gwendolyn Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. The gallants must then grapple with the
uproarious consequences of their ruse, and with the formidable Lady Bracknell.
Following a six week UK tour, The Importance Of Being Earnest opens at the Vaudeville Theatre on 24 June,
and will be directed by the highly respected Adrian Noble, a former Artistic Director of the RSC whose
extensive theatre credits range from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Palladium to Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf for the Theatre Royal, Bath and a myriad of acclaimed productions in between.
Christine Costello, Managing Director, More2Screen comments: "We are thrilled to be appointed as the
worldwide theatrical distributor for this exciting theatre project. There is a huge appetite for live theatre
broadcasts within the Event Cinema space and The Importance Of Being Earnest is both a well-known classic
and stars the instantly recognisable David Suchet. It’s a winning Event Cinema combination and offers our
exhibitor partners around the world a fantastic programming opportunity for the autumn.”
Kim Poster, Producer for Stanhope Productions says: “As one of the world’s leading Event Cinema distributors
and with their extensive experience of taking content out to their cinema partners across the globe,
More2Screen is ideally placed to realise the full potential of this universally adored Oscar Wilde play.”
Following the live broadcast of The Importance Of Being Earnest on 8 October, there will be an international
roll-out of the recorded production from November 2015.
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Notes To Editors:
More2Screen is the leading distributor of event cinema in the UK* with more than 8 years of experience acquiring and
distributing world-class opera, ballet, music concerts, theatre and special event films to 5,000 cinemas in 60+
international territories – including 46 live broadcasts and over 150 different recorded productions, plus 3D live/recorded
content. The company has won two ECA Box Office Awards: Queen Hungarian Rhapsody (100,000+ worldwide
admissions) in 2013 and Pompeii from the British Museum (100,000+ worldwide admissions) in 2014.
We’re passionate about bringing the finest entertainment content closer to local audiences across the globe, from
distributing magnificent opera and ballet productions in partnership with Europe’s leading companies including the Royal
Opera House, the Mariinsky Theatre and the Dutch National Ballet, to first-class classical music concerts from the Berliner
Philharmoniker. In the growing area of museum events we are the international distributor for the British Museum’s
ground-breaking Pompeii from the British Museum and Vikings from the British Museum. Our ever-expanding repertoire
also features live and recorded pop music events from best-selling artists like The Rolling Stones, Adele, Queen, Peter
Gabriel, Def Leppard, Morrissey and the Backstreet Boys, plus theatre must-sees Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds,
Stephen Sondheim's Company and Broadway’s Romeo and Juliet starring Orlando Bloom.
*(Source: IHS Screen Digest Report 2012)
For more information about booking The Importance Of Being Earnest contact:
Christine Costello at More2Screen
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7806 6218
Email: [email protected]
www.more2screen.com