The Importance of Being Earnest - TNT

It's back to the world of cucumber sandwiches and inscrutable manservants in this straightforward revival of Oscar Wilde's 1895 comedy of multiple mistaken identities and a baby found in a handbag. Algernon and John, both moneyed young men of leisure, aren't yet quite at home with the rhythms of Wildean wit, but things look up when Penelope Keith's superior Lady Bracknell arrives with her daughter (Daisy Haggard's spirited Gwendolen) in tow. She delivers her lines to the manor born as she questions her would-be son-in-law's credentials. There's nice work, too, from Rebecca Night's Cecily (his determined teenage ward whose sweet exterior belies a deviously sharp determination) and from Janet Henfrey as her spinster governess, blushingly falling for the local reverend.
Vaudeville, Strand, WC2 (0870- 040 0084). Until April 26. £45-£20