The Importance of Being Earnest
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By Oscar Wilde
Directed by Tom Dugdale
Good friends Algernon and Jack use the same alter ego—Ernest—to pursue the innocent Cecily and Gwendolen who insist on marrying a man named Ernest. Gwendolen’s mother, the formidable Lady Bracknell, forbids the match. Using wit, puns, farce, mistaken identity and a handbag, Wilde’s “Trivial Comedy for Serious People” satirizes the superficiality of England’s aristocracy and the hypocrisy of Victorian morality.
Directed by Tom Dugdale
Good friends Algernon and Jack use the same alter ego—Ernest—to pursue the innocent Cecily and Gwendolen who insist on marrying a man named Ernest. Gwendolen’s mother, the formidable Lady Bracknell, forbids the match. Using wit, puns, farce, mistaken identity and a handbag, Wilde’s “Trivial Comedy for Serious People” satirizes the superficiality of England’s aristocracy and the hypocrisy of Victorian morality.
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