The Importance of Being Earnest

Sometimes called the greatest comedy of the English stage, this is an absolutely hilarious, satirical farce from the supremely witty pen of Oscar Wilde, which skewers 1895 England’s rigid social conventions, mores and romantic ideals. Conventions, mores and ideals all of which, moreover, have parallels in today’s society.

Two young men about town, Jack and Algernon, lead double lives to evade unwanted social obligations, both assuming the name and fictitious identity of Jack’s disreputable, younger brother Ernest. While doing so, they both fall in love with women who have firmly, resolved to love only someone of the name of Ernest. Their quest for true love and happiness is further complicated by the opposition of the domineering enforcer of social rectitude, Lady Bracknell (Algernon’s aunt and the mother of Jack’s love), who emphatically disapproves of Jack’s origin as an infant found in a handbag in the cloakroom of Victoria station!

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