Pay What You Can - The Importance of Being Earnest

Please meet at 7pm; show is at 7:30 pm.

#### Widely regarded as one of the greatest comedies ever written, The Importance of Being Earnest is a high rising confection of razor sharp wit, sparkling social satire, and the most famous handbag in theatre history. The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde's comedic masterpiece, a satire on Victorian society that follows two bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrief, who invent alter egos named "Ernest" to escape social obligations, leading to hilarious confusion, mistaken identities, and romantic entanglements with Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew, all while mocking social conventions, marriage, and the very concept of sincerity. The play's central joke revolves around the double meaning of "earnest," as the men's fabricated identities clash with the women's desire to marry someone with that specific, respectable-sounding name, culminating in a revelation that Jack's real name is, in fact, Ernest.