THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
THIS PRODUCTION HAS CLOSED.
OFF-BROADWAY SHOW INFORMATION
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Tue at 7pm, Wed at 2pm, Thu-Fri at 8pm, Sat at 2pm & 8pm, Sun at 2pmOFFICIAL WEBSITE
www.PearlTheatre.orgRUNNING TIME
GENRE
Off-Broadway PlayPERFORMANCE DATES
Opening: April 14, 2008Closing: May 25, 2008
SYNOPSIS - ABOUT THE SHOW
Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrief both lead busy double lives in the highest of style: creating false identities, avoiding family obligations, wooing well-bred young ladies, visiting imaginary invalids and (equally imaginary) wayward brothers. Now their carefully constructed "alternate universe" is crumbling at the edges, and they will have to decide whether being "Ernest" or "earnest" will get them what they want. Less than a year before persecution and scandal would destroy his career, Oscar Wilde produced his last and most beloved comedy. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) offers a sly send-up of the cucumber sandwich set, and invites us into a world where artifice is everything, honesty is entirely passé, and truth is "never pure and seldom simple."
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