“所有女人都会变成跟她们母亲一样，这就是她们的悲剧；男人则不然，这也是男人的悲剧。”
《认真的重要性》（又译《不可儿戏》）被认为是最能够代表奥斯卡·王尔德喜剧创作的杰作，充满了王尔德式的妙语连珠；剧中人如同双生子一样的真假身份带来了误会与巧合，最终的假戏真做皆大欢喜，更是在继承莎士比亚喜剧衣钵的基础上，以王尔德独有的、玩世不恭的态度，讽刺了维多利亚时期上流社会的虚伪矫饰，至今犀利依旧。

《认真的重要性》故事里的杰克和阿尔杰农一个看似正经，另一个则是花花公子，实际上皆以不同的身份游走于伦敦社交圈与乡野生活之间。他们分别追求格温多林和塞西莉两个姑娘，却眼看就要因为同时用了“厄内斯特”（Ernest谐音Earnest，意为“认真”）这一虚构的姓名和身份而搞砸婚事……
由前任环球莎士比亚艺术总监多米尼克·德洛姆戈尔（Dominic Dromgoole）创立的公司Classic Spring制作的奥斯卡·王尔德演出季于2018年登上伦敦西区，以纪念这位维多利亚时期的天才作家。作为该季最热门的剧目之一，此版《认真的重要性》由迈克尔·芬特曼执导，奥利弗奖得主索菲·汤普森领衔主演，再次领略到高级讽刺喜剧的“机智俏皮”、“迷人魅力”。

一座车水马龙的繁华城市里，矗立着一尊王子的雕像，城里的人们都叫它快乐王子。一天，一只南飞的燕子掉了队，停留在了快乐王子的肩膀上。小燕子想要追上大部队，但孤独的快乐王子流着泪乞求小燕子留下，经不住王子的哀求，小燕子答应了。
这个城市里居住着许多孤苦伶仃的人们，快乐王子不忍心看到他们受苦，于是接连奉献出了自己的两只宝石做的眼睛，小燕子几次想走，都遭到了快乐王子的挽留，虽然小燕子知道，冬天快来了，它留在这里只有死路一条，但是还是选择了留下陪伴快乐王子。终于有一天，小燕子被冻死在了快乐王子的脚下，那一刻，快乐王子的心碎了。

A film based on a story by Oscar Wilde - The Star Child.

当王尔德的英伦毒舌遭遇了现代音乐，当约翰列侬的英伦摇滚邂逅了阿卡贝拉，一切从想象开始。
在1890的英国，两名年轻绅士希望为沉闷的生活注入朝气，决定“搞搞新意思”。约翰沃辛谎称自己有个名为“埃纳斯特”的哥哥，藉此离开这个沉闷城市出外闯一番，邂逅了上流小姐格温多琳。阿尔杰农又利用这个假名到英国大庄园探访美女赛西莉。后来两个“埃纳斯特”相遇，险些儿扼杀了两人的美妙恋情……
于此同时，误入时空隧道的约翰列侬，正冥思苦想着如何重新回到属于自己的时代，但是更多的时候是与王尔德笔下形态各异、鲜活生动的人物打成了一片。

绅士与淑女的爱情究竟是盲目的假面？还是真诚的情感倾诉？2012年最华丽的组合、最闪耀的阵容，《最后14堂星期二的课》杨世彭执导 × 杨谨华、杨千霈、卢燕领衔主演，巨星卡司，妙语如珠，联手重现英国戏剧鬼才王尔德登峰造极喜剧名作。
现实世界里到底是爱情至上？还是「真诚」至上？两名绅士结为好友，并各自以假名「任真」的双重身分在名流圈消遥自在，岂知在因缘际会下两位淑女无可救药爱上了两位「任真」先生，并打从心底认定终身对象名为「任真」的重要性，此生非「任真」不嫁。爱神来了，两位「任真」先生却因自己是假「任真」的身份身陷情海波澜，不得不对爱情认真起来。到底两位绅士最后能不能抱得美人归？难道爱情世界里，名字比真实的人来得重要？且看国际大导杨世彭执导巨星卡司，在机智风趣的语言当中讽刺社会风俗，重现英国戏剧鬼才王尔德登峰造极喜剧名作，《不可儿戏》，绝非儿戏！

The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughter's marriage. The best-known line of the play sums up the central theme:

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. —Lord Darlington

A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting hall. Some soldiers are leaning over the balcony. To the right there is a gigantic staircase, to the left, at the back, an old cistern surrounded by a wall of green bronze. The moon is shining very brightly.
Narraboth gazes from a terrace in Herod's palace into the banquet hall at the beautiful Princess Salome; he is in love with her, and apotheosizes her, much to the disgusted fearfulness of the Page of Herodias. The voice of the Prophet Jochanaan is heard from his prison in the palace cistern; Herod fears him and has ordered that no one should contact him, including Jerusalem's High Priest.
Tired of the feast and its guests, Salome flees to the terrace. When she hears Jochanaan cursing her mother (Herodias), Salome's curiosity is piqued. The palace guards will not honor her petulant orders to fetch Jochanaan for her, so she teasingly works on Narraboth to bring Jochanaan before her. Despite the orders he has received from Herod, Narraboth finally gives in after she promises to smile at him.
Jochanaan emerges from the cistern and shouts prophecies regarding Herod and Herodias that no one understands, except Salome when the Prophet refers to her mother. Upon seeing Jochanaan, Salome is filled with an overwhelming desire for him, praising his white skin and asking to touch it, but he rejects her. She then praises his black hair, again asking to touch it, but is rejected once more. She finally begs for a kiss from Jochanaan's lips, and Narraboth, who cannot bear to hear this, kills himself. As Jochanaan is returned to the well, he preaches salvation through the Messiah.
Herod enters, followed by his wife and court. He slips in Narraboth's blood and starts hallucinating. He hears the beating of wings. Despite Herodias' objections, Herod stares lustfully at Salome, who rejects him. Jochanaan harasses Herodias from the well, calling her incestuous marriage to Herod sinful. She demands that Herod silence him. Herod refuses, and she mocks his fear. Five Jews argue concerning the nature of God. Two Nazarenes tell of Christ's miracles; at one point they bring up the raising of Jairus' daughter from the dead, which Herod finds frightening.
Herod asks for Salome to eat with him, drink with him; indolently, she twice refuses, saying she is not hungry or thirsty. Herod then begs Salome to dance for him, Tanz für mich, Salome, though her mother objects. He promises to reward her with her heart's desire – even if it were one half of his kingdom.
After Salome inquires into his promise, and he swears to honor it, she prepares for the "Dance of the Seven Veils". This dance, very oriental in orchestration, has her slowly removing her seven veils, until she lies naked at his feet. Salome then demands the head of the prophet on a silver platter. Her mother cackles in pleasure. Herod tries to dissuade her with offers of jewels, peacocks, and the sacred veil of the Temple. Salome remains firm in her demand for Jochanaan's head, forcing Herod to accede to her demands. After a desperate monologue by Salome, an executioner emerges from the well and delivers the severed head as she requested.
Salome now declares her love for the severed head, caressing it and kissing the prophet's dead lips passionately. Horrified, Herod orders his soldiers, "Kill that woman!" They rush forward and crush Salome under their shields.

这出戏在罗伯特·齐尔敦爵士那坐落于伦敦时髦的格罗夫诺广场（Grosvenor Square）的宅邸晚宴上拉开序幕。马克贝夫人带来了一位不速之客——聪明且野心勃勃的薛芙丽太太。薛芙丽太太原来曾和罗伯特爵士的妻子，也就是齐尔敦太太有着同窗之谊，而她从维也纳回来的目的是为了要挟罗伯特爵士这位前途大好的外交官员。罗伯特爵士的财产，以及他的事业，其实都建立在他当初将内阁秘密出卖给苏伊士运河公司而赚得的物质报酬之上。在这部剧里，由始至终， 罗伯特爵士都在大费周章地对妻子隐瞒这个有如人格污点的秘密。毕竟齐尔敦太太崇拜她的“理想丈夫”可谓到了一个把他架上神坛的地步，而罗伯特爵士也很担心因此失去妻子的爱慕。薛芙丽太太一心想要从罗伯特爵士的尴尬处境中得到好处，一度把他耍得团团转，可到了故事的最后一幕却聪明反被聪明误。在王尔德笔下，没有一个角色是完美无缺的；即使是表面上看来毫无破绽的齐尔敦太太也犯了个愚蠢的错误——她在发现丈夫的不法行为之后，居然给高凌子爵写了一封妥协信。

改编自王尔德同名小说。天生漂亮异常的道林·格雷因见了画家霍华德给他画的真人一样大的肖像，发现了自己惊人的美，又听信了亨利爵士的吹嘘，开始为自己韶华易逝，美貌难久感到痛苦，表示希望那幅肖像能代替自己承担岁月和心灵的负担，而让自己永远保持青春貌美。他的这个愿望后来却莫名其妙的实现了。在亨利爵士的不断影响下，格雷成了新享乐主义的实践者，从此追求享乐成了他生活的惟一目标，许多接近他的人也都因为他堕落、放荡的生活方式而变得或声名狼藉或身败名裂。后来他竟然丧心病狂地杀死霍华德并毁尸灭迹。就这样他一直过着双重生活，虽然20年过去了，但他看起来仍然是那个俊美、纯洁的20岁青年，尽管他干尽了腐朽堕落的勾当。最后当他想用刀破坏掉他罪恶的惟一证据——肖像时，刀子却插进了自己的胸膛，而肖像又回复到了它当实初的完美状态。

Wilde’s much-loved masterpiece throws love, logic and language into the air to make one of theatre’s most dazzling firework displays. Don’t miss the final instalment of Classic Spring’s ‘deliciously charming’ (Sunday Times) Oscar Wilde Season.

Classic Spring present A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, starring Eve Best, as part of the Oscar Wilde Season at the Vaudeville Theatre.

An earnest young American woman, a louche English lord, and an innocent young chap join a house party of fin de siècle fools and grotesques. Nearby a woman lives, cradling a long-buried secret. Wilde’s marriage of glittering wit and Ibsenite drama create a vivid new theatrical voice...

"One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation."

Directed by Dominic Dromgoole, A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE stars Olivier Award winner Eve Best (A Moon for the Misbegotten, Hedda Gabler), Eleanor Bron (Help!, Alfie), William Gaunt (King Lear, The Crucible) and BAFTA nominated Anne Reid (Last Tango in Halifax).