Her life through a Prism

Laoisha O’Callaghan has given an Irish twist to one of Wilde’s great English characters, writes Colette Sheridan

Cork-born actor Laoisha O’Callaghan, who stars as Miss Prism in a touring production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, is playing her character as an Irish woman.

This is not based on any instructions from the playwright but is the result of O’Callaghan’s attempt to give her character a back story. And as the only Irish actor in this London Classic Theatre production, O’Callaghan is keen to put her stamp on the play, set in late Victorian England.