Editing The Importance of Being Earnest (section)

===21st century===
The play was presented in Singapore in 2004 by the [[British Theatre Playhouse]],<ref>[https://britishtheatreplayhouse.com/productions/ "Past Productions"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240822093153/https://britishtheatreplayhouse.com/productions/ |date=22 August 2024 }}, British Theatre Playhouse. Retrieved 18 August 2024</ref> and the same company took the production to [[Greenwich Theatre]], London, in 2005.<ref>Morrison, John. "The Importance of Being Earnest", ''The Stage'', 21 April 2005, p. 9</ref> In 2007 [[Peter Gill (playwright)|Peter Gill]] directed the play at the [[Theatre Royal, Bath]]. The production went on a short UK tour before playing in the West End in 2008.<ref>Billington, Michael. [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/feb/01/theatre "The Importance of Being Earnest"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240822091740/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/feb/01/theatre |date=22 August 2024 }}, ''The Guardian'', 1 February 2008</ref>

Since the 1987 Whitehall version, some other productions have cast a male actor in the role of Lady Bracknell. In 2005 the [[Abbey Theatre]], Dublin, presented the play with an all-male cast; it also featured Wilde as a character – the play opened with him drinking in a Parisian café, dreaming of his play.<ref>Fricker, Karen. [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/aug/08/theatre "The Importance of Being Earnest"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240822091655/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/aug/08/theatre |date=22 August 2024 }}, ''The Guardian'', 8 August 2005</ref> The [[Melbourne Theatre Company]] staged a production in 2011 with [[Geoffrey Rush]] as Lady Bracknell.<ref>Middleton, Carol. [https://australianstage.com.au/201111184961/reviews/melbourne/the-importance-of-being-earnest-%7C-melbourne-theatre-company.html "The Importance of Being Earnest – Melbourne Theatre Company"] ''Australina Stage'', 18 November 2011</ref> In the same year the [[Roundabout Theatre Company]] presented a Broadway revival based on the 2009 [[Stratford Shakespeare Festival]] production featuring its director, [[Brian Bedford]], as Lady Bracknell.<ref>Jones, Kenneth. [https://playbill.com/article/a-wilde-hit-broadways-earnest-gets-17-week-extension-bumping-people-musical-to-studio-54-com-175535 "A Wilde Hit! Broadway's ''Earnest'' gets 17 week extension, bumping ''People'' musical to Studio 54"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816083210/https://playbill.com/article/a-wilde-hit-broadways-earnest-gets-17-week-extension-bumping-people-musical-to-studio-54-com-175535 |date=16 August 2024 }}, ''[[Playbill]]'', 26 January 2011</ref> At the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], London, in 2015, [[David Suchet]] took the role in a production directed by [[Adrian Noble]].<ref name=ms/>

In 2014 at the [[Harold Pinter Theatre]], London, [[Lucy Bailey]] directed a production that followed a trend to "age-blind" casting:<ref name=age/><ref>John, Emma. [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/14/age-blind-casting-geraldine-james "'A 70-year-old skipping about pretending to be 20': the new era of age-blind casting"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240822092701/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/14/age-blind-casting-geraldine-james |date=22 August 2024 }}, ''The Guardian'', 14 August 2024</ref> the average age of the cast was nearly seventy, and Jarvis and Havers reprised the roles they had played at the National in 1982.<ref name=age>Masters, Tim. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28364946 "Havers recaptures youth in Importance of Being Earnest"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240822092706/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28364946 |date=22 August 2024 }}, BBC, 20 July 2014</ref> In 2024 the [[Royal Exchange Theatre]], Manchester presented an updated version, described by ''[[The Guardian]]'' as "a convincing stab at a 21st-century makeover".<ref>Fisher, Mark. [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/jun/20/the-importance-of-being-earnest-review-royal-exchange-manchester The Importance of Being Earnest review – Algernon et al get a 21st-century makeover"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240822092639/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/jun/20/the-importance-of-being-earnest-review-royal-exchange-manchester |date=22 August 2024 }}, ''The Guardian'', 20 June 2024</ref> That same year, a more opulent version was performed at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]. The cast included [[Ncuti Gatwa]] as Algernon, [[Hugh Skinner]] as Jack, [[Eliza Scanlen]] as Cecily, [[Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo]] as Gwendolen, and [[Sharon D. Clarke]] as Lady Bracknell.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Importance of Being Earnest|url=https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/the-importance-of-being-earnest/ |access-date=March 31, 2025|work=National Theatre}}</ref>