"The Importance of Being Earnest" opens tomorrow

[Janelle Rainville]

[Earnest Postercompress]

DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA AND SPEECH COMMUNICATION

PRESENTS



 The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

Directed by Stewart Arnott

November 13-15, 7:30 p.m.





The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde's timeless farcical comedy is a subversive, and cockeyed mirror held up to Edwardian English society that still manages to reflect back our society in the 21st century.  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 himself 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 [cid:image004.jpg at 01CFFE91.B1E71C20] young, attractive ward Cecily, it becomes clear there are both too many and too few Ernests earnestly courting.



Guest director Stewart Arnott calls Wilde's piece "the perfect comedy," and a "finely balanced piece of art." Set designer Bill Chesney and costume designer Sharon E. Secord have created a beautiful homage to the Edwardian period.  Full of Wilde's famous paradoxes and epigrams, The Importance of Being Earnest is still regarded as one of the truly great comedies in the English language almost 120 years after its debut in London.



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.



Location

University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo

Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building



Tickets

$17 General

$13 Students & Seniors

Box Office: 519-888-4908



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