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Oct 8, 2015 · The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage: Directed by Adrian Noble. With David Suchet, Emily Barber, Michael Benz, Philip Cumbus. In 1890's England, two friends use the pseudonym, Earnest, for their on-the-down-low activities, add in love and a strange coincidence and things get very funny.
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- Comedy
- Adrian Noble
- 2015-10-08
Oct 8, 2015 · National treasure and Poirot star David Suchet starred as the formidable Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s much loved masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest.
The Importance of Being Earnest was the first of the plays to be rehabilitated, with several performances before the Great War. As time went on, however, it became increasingly clear that the play is quite specifically dated.
The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations.
- Oscar Wilde
- 1895
Earnest tells the story of two young gentlemen in London, who each live a double-life, creating elaborate deceptions to find some balance in their lives. John Worthing escapes the burdens of responsibility to have an exciting life in the city, pretending to be his fictitious younger brother Ernest.
NR Romance, Comedy, History. National treasure and Poirot star David Suchet starred as the formidable Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s much loved masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest.
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People was originally written as a play in four acts, and was shortened to a three-act piece to accommodate the demands of the theatre in which it was originally performed.
