The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde Directed by Warren Bates

“The Importance of Being Earnest”  by Oscar Wilde, Directed by Warren Bates

25th July – 3rd August 2019

The Importance of Being Earnest is recognised as the most brilliant comedy of Oscar Wilde’s entire writing career.

Two young bachelors, Algernon Moncrieff and John Worthing J.P., lead double lives to court the attentions of the exquisitely desirable Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew.  The gallants must then grapple with the riotous consequences of their deceptions … and with the formidable Lady Bracknell.  Happening simultaneously is the attraction between Governess, Miss Prism and the Rev. Canon Chasuble.

All these happenings have been inconspicuously observed by Algernon’s butler, Lane and the Manor House manservant Merriman.

Cast:  Laurie Neville (Lane/Merriman); Sonny Deacle (Algernon Moncrieff); Martin Quicke (John Worthing, J.P.); Selina Mackie (Lady Bracknell); Loren Armstrong (Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax); Michelle Rawlinson (Cecily Cardew); Sharren Read (Miss Prism, Governess); Steve Hobson (Rev Canon Chasuble, D.D.)