The Importance of Being Earnest

When:
Saturday, Nov 04, 2023 8:00p -
10:30p

Where:
Vokes Players
97 Boston Post Road (Route 20)
Wayland, MA 01778

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Admission:
$24

Hosted by:
kiracadabra Kathy

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. 

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