The Importance of Being Earnest, 1926

The run dates incomplete

Opened

May 3, 1926

Closed

Unknown

Performances

70

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Comedy Theatre

Of the 2,149 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and carry a performance count, this is the 797th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. At this distance that most likely means nobody wrote down when it ended, rather than that the run went on.

Other stagings of The Importance of Being Earnest 9 more that season

1895	Empire Theatre Original	40 perf.
1902	Empire Theatre Revival	49 perf.
1921	Bramhall Playhouse Revival	44 perf.
1947	Royale Theatre Revival	81 perf.
1977	Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Stephen Porter	85 perf.
1993	Aldwych Theatre Original
2008	Vaudeville Theatre Original
2011	American Airlines Theatre Revival · Brian Bedford	189 perf.
2015	Vaudeville Theatre Original

Who was in it8 named

Patricia Collinge
Gerald Hamer
Haroldine Humphreys
Catherine Proctor
Wallace Roberts
Vernon Steele
Lucile Watson

1 of these 8 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Dudley Digges

Producer

The Actors Theatre

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for The Importance of Being Earnest at all.
• When it closed.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.