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Importance of Being Earnest (version 5)

Oscar Wilde

Length
2 h 11 min
Chapters
3
Language
English
Genre
Satire
First published
1915

In this most popular of all Oscar Wilde’s plays, two fashionable bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, discover that each has been simplifying his social obligations via the use of a convenient false persona. Their comfortable white lies suddenly lead to chaos when romance enters the picture in the form of the lovely Gwendolyn Fairfax and the innocent Cecily Cardew. Hilarity ensues as the bachelors attempt to quickly untangle the web of their deceptions in order to win the lady of their choice and withstand the scrutiny of the formidable Lady Bracknell. - Summary by Kelly S. Taylor

Cast List

John Worthing, J.P. cavaet

Algernon Moncrieff Rob Marland

Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D Algy Pug

Merriman Adrian Stephens

Lane, Manservant Alan Mapstone

Lady Bracknell Kelly S. Taylor

Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax Elise Dee

Cecily Cardew Jenn Broda

Miss Prism, Governess TriciaG

Stage Directions realisticspeakers

Chapters

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