The Importance of Being Earnest
May 2009 (5 Performances) - Harrogate Theatre

 

 

CAST

John Worthing Gareth Sargeson
Algernon Moncrieff Arthur Timmins
Canon Chasuble John Glyn Jones
Lady Bracknell Judy Methven
Gwendolen Fairfax Rachel Conyers
Cecily Cardew Kate Antram
Miss Prism Jenny Antram
Lane Stuart Kellett
Merriman Bob Mallow

By Oscar Wilde

Directed by Brian Foster

 

 

If you want to know why, when things get tedious in the country, Jack insists on going to London to see his younger brother Ernest, and......... you'd like to know why, when things get tricky in townm Algy has to do and see his invalid friend Bunbury in the country, and.........why two eligible young ladies are both in love with Ernest but are promised to the wealthy layabouts Algy and Jack, and....... what is was that made Lady Bracknell go apoplectic when she heard about a handbag left at Victoria Station........and why Algy and Jack decided they should be re-Christened?

To find the answers, you are invited to sit back and unravel this tale of mistaken identities wiht Jack, Algy, Cecily, Gwendolen, Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism, and Canon Chasuble with a little help from Lane and Merriman the butlers in Oscar Wilde's enduring comedy of manners set in 1890s England.