{"id":910,"date":"2024-01-11T16:43:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thds2.wpcomstaging.com\/?page_id=910"},"modified":"2024-02-23T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T21:28:07","slug":"may-2009-the-importance-of-being-ernest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=910","title":{"rendered":"May 2009 &#8211; The Importance of Being Ernest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/importance-cast.jpg?w=650\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-911\" style=\"width:518px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Playwright &#8211; Oscar Wilde<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Location &#8211; Harrogate Theatre Main Stage<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director &#8211; Brian Foster<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cast<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>John Worthing &#8211; Gareth Sargeson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Algernon Moncrieff &#8211; Arthur Timmins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canon Chasuble &#8211; John Glyn-Jones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lady Bracknell &#8211; Judy Methven<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gwendolen Fairfax &#8211; Rachel Conyers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cecily Cardew &#8211; Kate Antram<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Miss Prism &#8211; Jenny Antram<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lane &#8211; Stuart Kellett<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Merriman &#8211; Bob Mallow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Do 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&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;you&#8217;d like to know why, when things get tricky in town Algy has to go and see his invalid friend Bunbury in the country, and&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;why two eligible young ladies are both in love with Ernest but are promised to the wealthy layabouts Algy and Jack, and&#8230;&#8230;.what it was that made Lady Bracknell apoplectic when she heard about a handbag left at Victoria Station&#8230;&#8230;..and why Algy and Jack decided they should be re-Christened? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find the answers, you are invited to sit back and unravel this tale of mistaken identities with Jack, Algy, Cecily, Gwendolen, Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism, and Canon Chasuble with a little help from Lane and Merriman the butlers in Oscar Wilde&#8217;s enduring comedy of manners set in 1890s England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast Do you want to know why, when things get tedious in the country, Jack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-910","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}