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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA AND SPEECH COMMUNICATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">PRESENTS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> The Importance of Being Earnest
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">by Oscar Wilde<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Directed by Stewart Arnott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">November 13-15, 7:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Importance of Being Earnest,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Oscar Wilde’s timeless farcical comedy is a subversive, and cockeyed mirror held up to Edwardian
English society that still manages to reflect back <i>our</i> society in the 21st century.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Whenever Jack Worthing slips away to London from his country estate he says he is going to
see his wayward brother “Ernest”. Once there he keeps his privacy by calling <i>
himself</i> Ernest - luckily so, as his beloved Gwendolen declares she could only love a man with that name! Her cousin, Algernon, is the one person who knows Jack's secret. When he decides to use this information in order to meet Jack’s
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attractive ward Cecily, it becomes clear there are both too many and too few Ernests earnestly courting.
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<p class="Body"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Guest director <b>
Stewart Arnott</b> calls Wilde’s piece “the perfect comedy,” and a “finely balanced piece of art.” Set designer
<b>Bill Chesney</b> and costume designer <b>Sharon E. Secord</b> have created a beautiful homage to the Edwardian period. Full of Wilde’s famous paradoxes and epigrams,
<b>The Importance of Being Earnest</b> is still regarded as one of the truly great comedies in the English language almost 120 years after its debut in London.
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<p class="Body"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Join us for this light-hearted, romantic and whimsical comedy as we witness ten people doing anything, and everything they can to get what they want.
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Location<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Tickets<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">$17 General<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">$13 Students & Seniors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Box Office: 519-888-4908<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Visit:</span></u><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
<u><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/drama-speech-communication/"><span style="color:#000099">https://uwaterloo.ca/drama-speech-communication/</span></a><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">for upcoming performances<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Follow us on Twitter @UWaterlooDrama<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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