THE acclaimed Galleon Theatre Company will be giving Oscar Wilde's comedy A Woman Of No Importance a festive revamp at the Greenwich Playhouse.

Transposing Wilde’s comedy drama to a Christmas party at the end of the 1950s, director Bruce Jamieson’s production hopes to liberate the play from its melodramatic Victorian setting and bring it closer to a time today's audience can relate to.

Through Wilde's inimitable wit, the play exposes the hypocrisy of a society which scorns and punishes a woman for her sexual misdemeanours but applauds and celebrates the man in question.

As spokeswoman for Galleon said: "The 1950s was a decade largely characterised by America’s muscular assertion of its political, cultural, economic, and militarily super power status; by the advent of the consumer age and by the emergence of a distinctive and rebellious youth culture, expressed in particular through fashion and music.

In this context, Hester, the young idealistic American woman of Wilde’s play, symbolises the impending infiltration of American values and the dawn of the 1960s which was to revolutionise society forever."

A Woman Of No Importance. Greenwich Playhouse, Greenwich High Road, Greenwich. Opens on December 14 and runs until January 16. To book, call 020 8858 9256 or visit boxoffice@galleontheatre.co.uk