DAVID SUCHET is set to perform at the Theatre Royal Bath as you’ve never seen him before – as the star of Poirot plays Lady Bracknell in a brand new stage production of The Importance of Being Earnest.

A major new production of Oscar Wilde’s much-loved masterpiece will play Bath from Monday, June 15 to Saturday, June 20 prior to a West End run.

Wilde's superb satire on Victorian manners is one of the funniest plays in the English language - the delightful repartee and hilarious piercing of hypocrisy and pomposity can still make you laugh out loud.

Best known for his role as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie’s Poirot, David Suchet’s other television work includes the award-winning BBC drama Maxwell, for which he won the Best Actor International Emmy Award in 2008; The Life of Freud, Victoria and Albert, Murder in Mind, and Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now (BAFTA nomination).

His film credits include Executive Decision, A Perfect Murder, Flood and The Bank. Aside from his television and film work, he has also worked extensively in theatre.

He has been nominated for numerous Olivier, Tony and BAFTA awards throughout his career, and was awarded the CBE in 2010. His many stage credits also include Complicit at The Old Vic, Once in a Lifetime at the National Theatre, The Last Confession at Theatre Royal Haymarket and the Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest and Othello.

Directed by Adrian Noble – who recently directed the Theatre Royal Bath’s acclaimed staging of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Clare Higgins and Tim Pigott-Smith in June 2014 – audiences in Bath will have the opportunity to watch this major new production before it opens in the West End next Summer. Tickets are available by calling 01225 448844 or visit theatreroyal.org.uk.