Peter O'Brien

I mean, I don't just go and see people doing jazz hands.

You know, I like a good play.

Either Company by Sondheim or A Little Night Music, I think.

Well, I've done all of the Wildes except for The Importance of Being Ernest, which is a brilliant film by Anthony Asquith.

I'd love to do Ernest.

I'd love to do the costume.

It's a great play.

It's almost indestructible, although...

There is a tendency nowadays to kind of hammer things home and make them relevant.

It's so insulting to audiences to presume that they understand nothing.

I mean, Wilde has already done that for you.

Wilde is absolutely taking the piss out of these people while appearing to revere them.

I mean, it's so infuriating that theatres now feel they have to speak down to us.

That word relevant makes me want to buy a machine gun.

It was about kind of when Russia collapsed and all the oligarchs started taking over.

I thought it would be really dry and really boring and really, it was fantastic.

It was directed by Rupert Gould.

Fantastic play, really brilliant.

I read kind of... That's my big addiction.

Two things, really.