Stephen Fry Eyeing Designers for 'Lady Bracknell' Costumes at Theatre Royal or Gielgud Next Year?

According to the Daily Mail, Stephen Fry is in negotiations with designers John Galliano, Roland Mouret and Sarah Burton to fashion costumes for his Lady Bracknell, to be seen onstage next year.

Fry told the show's producers that "he wants the sets and gowns to get applause when the curtain goes up."

Fry will star in and direct The Importance of Being Earnest at either Theatre Royal Haymarket or the Gielgud Theatre in spring or fall 2014, depending upon availability.

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The shows producers are David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers. The play's development has been going on for more than a year.

Fry has appeared in the West End in Twelfth Night, Soho Cinders and Me and My Girl, as well as The Likes of Us on the London Fringe. Fry's playwriting credits include Latin! or Tobacco and Boys, Cinderella, and the West End adaptation of Me and My Girl.

Fry appeared as Bracknell's playwright Oscar Wilde in the film Wilde, in the BBC TV series Blackadder, as well as TV's Kingdom, Bones, the quiz show QI, and the movie V for Vendetta, among many more.