A NEW production of Oscar Wilde’s brilliant comic masterpiece, 'The importance of being earnest' visits the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday 22 to Saturday 27 September to Saturday 27, following a West End run at the Harold Pinter Theatre this summer.
Dubbed by Oscar Wilde ‘a trivial comedy for serious people’ the production takes this sentiment to heart and delivers an entirely faithful, but nonetheless unique, setting to one of the greatest theatrical comedies. Acclaimed comic novelist, Simon Brett, was commissioned to create an original new context for the play with designs by the innovative leading theatre designer William Dudley. A star-studded cast have been transformed into The Bunbury Company of Players to bring Wilde’s genius afresh to a new audience.
The Importance of Being Earnest elegantly lampoons the hypocrisies of Victorian society and opens as two bachelors, the dependable, John Worthing, J.P. and upper class playboy Algernon Moncrieff, feel compelled to create different identities in order to pursue two eligible ladies, Cecily Cardew and Gwendolyn Fairfax. The hilarious misadventures which result from their subterfuge; their brushes with the redoubtable Lady Bracknell and the uptight Miss Prism, result in a plot that twists and fizzles with some of the finest dialogue to be found in theatre.
The Importance of being Earnest appears at the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday, September 22 to Saturday , September 27. Visit www.theatreroyal.org.uk for more details.
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