AUDITIONS - The Importance of Being Earnest

Name: AUDITIONS - The Importance of Being Earnest
Start: 2025-04-21T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-21T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 403 N Main St, South Bend, IN, United States, Indiana 46601

Schedule

Mon Apr 21 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

403 N Main St, South Bend, IN, United States, Indiana 46601 | South Bend, IN

AUDITIONS
The Importance of Being Earnest
BY: Oscar Wilde
PRESENTED IN THE HISTORY MUSEUM'S HISTORIC OLIVER GARDENS
DIRECTOR: Nathan Mittleman
April 21 OR 22 at 6:00PM
Location: South Bend Civic Theatre
SYNOPSIS:
John Worthing, a carefree young gentleman, is the inventor of a fictitious brother, “Ernest,” whose wicked ways afford John an excuse to leave his country home from time to time and journey to London, where he stays with his close friend and confidant, Algernon Moncrieff. Algernon has a cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax, with whom John is deeply in love. During his London sojourns, John, under the name Ernest, has won Gwendolen’s love, for she strongly desires to marry someone with the confidence-inspiring name of Ernest. But when he asks for Gwendolen’s hand from the formidable Lady Bracknell, John finds he must reveal he is a foundling who was left in a handbag at Victoria Station. This is very disturbing to Lady Bracknell, who insists that he produce at least one parent before she consents to the marriage.
Returning to the country home where he lives with his ward Cecily Cardew and her governess Miss Prism, John finds that Algernon has also arrived under the identity of the nonexistent brother Ernest. Algernon falls madly in love with the beautiful Cecily, who has long been enamored of the mysterious, fascinating brother Ernest.
With the arrival of Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen, chaos erupts. It is discovered that Miss Prism is the absent-minded nurse who twenty years ago misplaced the baby of Lady Bracknell’s brother in Victoria Station. Thus John, whose name is indeed Ernest, is Algernon’s elder brother, and the play ends with the two couples in a joyous embrace.
source: Utah Shakespeare Festival
For rehearsal and performance schedules, character breakdowns, and to sign up, visit: https://sbct.org/audition-announcement-the-importance-of-being-earnest/