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The Importance of Being Earnest - Madison Street Theater
Enjoy an evening of serious comedy watching local youth perform Oscar Wilde's play, "The Importance of Being Earnest." Sept 11-14.
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 personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play’s major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde’s most enduringly popular play.
The Importance of Being Earnest is Wilde’s most popular work and is continually revived. It has been adapted for the cinema on three occasions. Max Beerbohm called the play Wilde’s “finest, most undeniably his own”, saying that in his other comedies—Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband—the plot, following the manner of Victorien Sardou, is unrelated to the theme of the work, while in Earnest the story is “dissolved” into the form of the play.
[FROM WIKIPEDIA]
