THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST IN WINDSOR

Edward is to reprise his critically acclaimed role as Canon Chasuble in the musical version of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the Theatre Royal Windsor. The show will run for a strictly limited season of three weeks from 20 June to 7 July.

He is joined once again by Gyles Brandreth as Lady Bracknell, and among the new members of the cast is Louise Gold as Miss Prism, with whom he sings the delightful, show-stopping duet ‘It All Began in a Garden’.

Performance times: Mon-Sat 8pm, Thu 2.30pm, Sat 4.45pm.

To book online, click here.

Photo by EP

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING AT THE NFI

A rare chance to see the BBC version of Zeffirelli’s 1965 National Theatre production of Much Ado About Nothing in which Edward played the part of Conrade. The 1967 film will be screened at the BFI Southbank (NFT1) at 6 p.m. on Tuesday 24 April as part of the BFI’s unLOCked strand. Click here to book.

DICKENS'S LONDON: PRISON TO THE PUB

Today, 7th February, marks the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Watch this BBC News feature in which Edward accompanies Dr Tony Williams on a walking tour of some of the Southwark landmarks associated with Dickens and in which he reads from Little Dorrit.

OXFORD LECTURE

On Monday 14th May, at the invitation of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), University of Oxford, Edward will deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Controlling the Ecstasy; or daring to direct the Bacchae’.

The basis of his lecture will be his innovative production of Euripides’ Bacchae (in a translation by William Arrowsmith) for the Actors’ Company in the 1970s.

The APGRD is an internationally renowned research centre and a pioneer in the study and promotion of classical performance reception.

The lecture will take place at 2.15 p.m. in the Lecture Theatre of the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies (66 St Giles’), Oxford. All are welcome to attend.

EDWARD IN BBC1'S DOCTORS

Catch Edward’s guest appearance as lawyer Bagley Grimsdale in two episodes of the BBC1 series Doctors: ‘Great Expectations’ on Monday 30th January and ‘Crocodile Tears’ on Tuesday 31st, both at 1.45 p.m.