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Suchet: Wilde's Lady Bracknell is 'nouveau riche'

Best known for his role as Belgian detective Hercules Poirot, actor David Suchet has returned to the stage – this time dressed in drag – as Oscar Wilde’s Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest.

He told the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Andrew Marr how, although he had seen the play many times, he took a fresh look at the script that came through his letterbox. β€œI read it as though I was reading it for the first time,” he said.

β€œLady Bracknell is nouveau riche… and I’d never seen that before.”

The Importance of Being Earnest is on at the Vaudeville Theatre, London until 7 November 2015.

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