"Baz from the Daily Mail reports that Stephen Fry is to play Lady Bracknell in a new West End production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest Stephen said he sees his Lady Bracknell ‘as a little bit of Alastair Sim’s Miss Fritton, clutching pearls; with a mixture of Stanley Baxter’s “Duchess of Brenda” '. Baz says, producers David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers have been in discussions with Stephen for more than a year. The plan is for the production to run at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane during the autumn of 2014. "
