The Importance of Being Earnest

Synopsis

Classic turn-of-the-century comedy of social manners. A very complicated plot that includes the famous "A Handbag!" line .. Jack Worthing is in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, daughter of the redoubtable Lady Bracknell, and cousin of his friend Algernon. They cannot wed until the mystery of his parentage (he was found in a handbag on Victoria Station) is resolved. Algy discovers that Jack has a pretty young ward, Cecily, living at the Manor and visits her pretending to be Jack's fictitious (and wicked) brother Ernest.

Our Review:

Barbara Maxwell - 1 October 2011

What a lovely way to end the week. After a hard working five days in the office what could be better to go to the theatre to see a cracking good production.

Floor to Ceiling have definitely done it again in my view. After their wonderful production of “86,400 Seconds at the Brewery Theatre last year, they have come up with another winner, but this time a much more traditional production. The Importance of Being Earnest is probably Oscar Wilde’s most well known comedy. It was also the last play he was ever to write – within a year of it opening in London he was in jail, and the rest as they say is history. It tells the story of the manners and expectations of the society he lived in, and pokes gentle fun at the establishment in a world still divided by class and wealth – nothing much changes!

The story follows the convoluted love lives of two couples – Jack and Gwendolen played by Oliver Millingham and [Alex Gilb...

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The Whateleys and Alders - 4 October 2011:

A fantastic play well worth the journey from Birmingham, Monty Till rocks!!...

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