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The Importance of Being Earnest

Source http://birmingham-rep.co.uk/event/the-importance-of-being-earnest

The REP returns to its roots with a pairing of two plays starring the same cast. Oscar Wilde’s wonderful wit shines throughout The Importance of Being Earnest, his celebrated satire about superficial social etiquette, and Tom Stoppard pays homage to Wilde’s wordplay in his sophisticated and cleverly constructed comedy Travesties. Viewed together these plays make for a tantalising theatrical experience, which we would like to invite you to indulge in…

To escape the seriousness of their daily lives, two young gentlemen living in Victorian England create elaborate cover stories in order to pursue more pleasurable pastimes.

Country dwelling Jack Worthing has decadent fun in London with his friend Algernon Moncrieff under the pretence that he is visiting his wayward brother, Ernest. But Ernest is just a figment of Jack’s imagination, a convenient excuse for his fun-filled excursions. And Jack actually goes by the name of his make-believe brother on his sojourns to the city, where things are complicated further by his infatuation with Algernon’s cousin, the delectable Gwendolen, whom he wishes to marry. But Algernon, who uses a similar rouse to Jack whenever he wishes to escape his dreary social duties, comes to suspect that his friend, who he knows only by his alter-ego, of living a double life.

9 September 2011 –22 October 20112011-09-09T19:30:00Z2011-10-22T21:20:00Z

Theatre

The Old Rep Theatre

The Old Rep Theatre
Station Street
Birmingham

B5 4DY Birmingham GB

0121 605 5116

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