A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde Directed by Colette Dockery
		Wednesday 2 - Saturday 12 September, 2026 At the Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington

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Photography by Giulia Paratelli

Cast List Rachel Arbuthnot : Dixi Taylor Mrs Allonby : Alexandra Charalambous Hester Worsley : Bethany Collins Lady Jane Hunstanton : Alison Liney Lady Caroline Pontefract : Vyvian Shaw Lady Stutfield : Roslyn Cuffe Kelly Lord Illingworth : Jonathan Buckingham Gerald Arbuthnot : Luke Yianni Mr Kelvil : Matthew Ibbotson Dr Daubeny : Bob Hough Sir John Pontefract : Bob Bradick Francis, a footman : Henry McMenamin

Production Team Director : Colette Dockery Set Design : Phillip Ley Costume Design : Christine Bowmaker Lighting Design : Alan Wilkinson Sound Design : Matthew Ibbotson Stage Manager : Sarah Ambrose Assistant Director : Cade Featherstone ASMs : Natalie Ings, Ruth Sanderson Lighting Operator : Jonathan Ringshall Sound Operator : Chris Shiel Costume Assistants : Judith Preece and Zoë George Set Construction and Get-in : Keith Syrett, Max Batty, Dina Benderra, Angelika Michitsch, David Dragonetti, Céline Barrière, Stephen Ley, Jude Chalk, Alex Burton, Fabrel Pàrraga-Michitsch, Jen Black, Kevin Bradley, Jennie Foot, Faye Arron, Gary O’Keefe, Michelle Balgobin

	Dixi Taylor joined the Tower Theatre last year, and this is her second performance with the company. She was very involved with theatre throughout school and university and performed in shows such as The Little Shop of Horrors, All My Sons and Guys and Dolls. She did her first show with Tower Theatre last year, a pantomime, and is excited to do something a bit different this time.			Alexandra Charalambous has been a Tower Theatre member since 2018 and trained in repertory theatre in London. She has performed across a range of theatre groups in London and Hertfordshire including Incognito Theatre Group, Potters Bar Theatre Company, HDOS and, of course, the Tower. Previous productions include Judy in Home, I’m Darling, Doris in Flare Path and Lucia in Black Coffee. Her last Tower production was The Wolves playing Soccer Mom. She is very excited to be returning to the Tower stage and performing in her first Oscar Wilde play.
	This is Bethany Collins' first production with the Tower Theatre. She studied Drama and partook in numerous shows in Stoke Newington Secondary School & Sixth Form, which is where her interest in theatre began. She is currently studying English Literature at the University of Sheffield but continues to sustain her love of acting with the university’s theatre society.			Alison Liney has been a company member for nearly thirty years. She last appeared on the Tower stage as Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd and went on to make her professional debut as mad Aunt Agatha in Happy Room at the King’s Head Theatre, transferring for a week at the Theatre Royal, Windsor where she had a luxurious dressing room all to herself! She has since come down to earth, working as ASM on Moby Dick in London, Brighton and Cornwall and chivying matinee audiences as Front of House Manager. She is delighted to be playing a grand lady with a houseful of servants.
	Vyvian Shaw has been a Tower member since 1998 appearing in several musicals and three shows at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall. She was last seen at the Tower in After Life but has recently been involved in a rehearsed reading of The Mirror and the Light as part of a Hilary Mantel weekend at All Hallows by the Tower (the other one).			This is Roslyn Cuffe Kelly's debut performance with the Tower, after joining the company earlier this year. It will mark her overdue return to the stage (and how she missed it!) She is excited to join this talented cast in their production of A Woman of No Importance.
	Originally from Stockport, Jonathan Buckinghamis a keen actor who has appeared on stages across London, Bath, Manchester, Glasgow and Sheffield. He performed most recently at the Tower in a production of Ink, playing Brian McConnell. His other performances this past year include Phèdre, Staying Alive and Blood Wedding.			Luke Yianni is fairly new to the Tower, but has had so much fun in everything he's done here and has loved working with the cast to put on A Woman of No Importance. I hope you have as much fun watching it as we have had making it!
	Matthew Ibbotson joined the Tower in 2018 and has appeared in productions of Kafka's Dick, To Kill A Mockingbird, Gainsborough's Girls, A Passage To India, Bouncers, Twelfth Night, The Boy Who Fell Into A Book, Labour of Love, The Fan and, most recently, Shakespeare in Love. When not acting he can often be found in the tech. box providing sound design or operating lights and is a current member of the Tower's Board of Trustees, having previously served on the Management Committee.			Bob Hough graduated from Exeter University´s English and Drama course some time ago. His fortune has declined since his first role with the Tower Theatre as God in Kleinzeit. Subsequently he has gone downhill: tortured half to death in Death and the Maiden; abandoned in Endgame; kicked and crushed to death respectively in Entertaining Mr Sloane and The Crucible; a heart attack in Baba Shakespeare; in The Doctor's Dilemma he was dragged from death's door only by a miracle serum. He has survived in other plays even escaping the noose-happy hangman in Hangmen. In A Woman of No Importance he is looking forward to dressing up as a 19th Century Archdeacon, including gaiters and apron. Elsewhere, he was a member of Personas Libro (Project Fahrenheit 451); details on request.
	After joining the Tower in 1989, Bob Bradick is looking forward to coming back in this terrific Oscar Wilde play after several years of absence. In the past, he appeared in many different productions; personal highlights include the many performances at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, such as Mack and Mabel, Paradise - a rock 'n' roll fable, and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby to name a few.			Henry McMenamin (Tom Bailey) first joined the Tower over 25 years ago - so long ago he can’t remember many of the productions he was involved with; Pygmalion and Mother Goose come to mind though. Tom studied at Mountview Theatre School when it was based in North London, however acting took a back seat to building a career as an Engineer and raising a family. He returned to acting three years ago and has appeared in The Gift (2023) and Telling It (2024).
	A Woman of No Importance is Colette Dockery's twelfth show for the Tower. Past directing credits include Oleanna, Mojo, The Slab Boys, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Two, The Woman who Cooked her Husband, Blue/Orange, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and, most recently, Stones in His Pockets. She started as an actor with the Tower, moving into directing 15 years ago.