The Importance of Being Earnest
T0162736879
Classic turn-of-the-century comedy of social manners. A very complicated plot that includes the famous "A Handbag!" line .. Jack Worthing is in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, daughter of the redoubtable Lady Bracknell, and cousin of his friend Algernon. They cannot wed until the mystery of his parentage (he was found in a handbag on Victoria Station) is resolved. Algy discovers that Jack has a pretty young ward, Cecily, living at the Manor and visits her pretending to be Jack's fictitious (and wicked) brother Ernest.
Archive :: production:T0162736879, play:S3690, venue:V720
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Production details
Internationally acclaimed Illyria bend the genders in an outdoor performance of Oscar Wilde's comedy of greed, deceit, impeccable manners and shocking innuendo. The men get their knickers in a twist, the women wear the trousers, and the skeletons in the closet are not alone...Arranged marriage versus true love. Cucumbers up. Handbags out. It's war.
