The Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy Performed by two Serious People

T01877362300
Seriously funny and deadly serious. Ridiculusmus are back with a new version of Wilde's classic high-society comedy. David Woods and Jon Haynes don't know exactly what the show will be. They have copies of the text (which, helpfully, Jon memorised at twelve years old); they know there will be no great dames of the British theatre, no plush velvet seats and proscenium arches. They have decided that they will play all the parts in the show themselves (although there have been arguments about who gets to say the immortal line 'a handbag?'). The rest will be coming together. Only one thing is guaranteed - you will never have seen an Importance like this before.

Author

Oscar Wilde

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Archive :: production:T01877362300, play:S01392930586, venue:V731

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Production details

Co-commissioned by BITE:05, Barbican and Brisbane Powerhouse. Wilde Theatre