The Importance of Being Earnest
When:
Friday, Nov 17, 2023 8:00p -
10:30p
Friday, Nov 17, 2023 8:00p -
10:30p
Where:
Vokes Players
97 Boston Post Road (Route 20)
Wayland, MA 01778
Admission:
$24
Hosted by:
Categories:
Date Idea, Shows
Event website:
https://www.vokesplayers.org/
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Mike Haddad
Fri 11/3 - 8pm
Sat 11/4 - 2pm & 8pm
Thurs 11/9 - 8pm
Fri Nov. 10 - 8pm
Sat 11/11 - 2pm & 8pm
Thurs 11/16 - 8pm
Fri 11/17 - 8pm
Sat 11/18 - 2pm & 8pm
FEATURING:
Jack Worthing - Justin Budinoff
Algernon Moncrieff - H. James Woodsum
Gwendolen Fairfax - Kristie Norris
Lady Bracknell - Bonnie Gardner
Cecily Cardew - Catherine Haverkampf
Ms. Prism - Stephanie Cotton-Snell
Rev Chausuble - David Foster
Lane / Merriman - Bill Novakowski
You have to know that it’s going to be a special theater season when you get a chance to re-experience (or, luckily, see for the first time) the enchanting exploits of Mr. Worthing and his cohorts. The Importance of Being Earnest is a touchstone for farcical and witty theater for the past 130 years. To try and say more about this plot would be not only ruinous for someone’s night out at the theater, but it would also be necessarily incomplete, confusing, or even irritating. But, for those who insist: the time is Victorian England. Jack Worthing is in love with Gwendolyn Fairfax. Jack’s friend Algernon falls for Jack’s ward, Cecily Cardew. Algernon is insouciant, Gwendolyn is unflappable, Jack is resolute and Ernest is….Well, we’ve almost said too much already. Throughout, the witticisms and epigrams fly unrelentingly, ranging on truth, morality, art and love. And, despite the glib way love & goodness are discussed by the characters, in the end, any effort to thwart the lovers is eventually quashed. But, in a silly way.
