![]() ![]() Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play. ![]() Algernon also visits Jack’s country home in pursuit of Cecily but when Lady Bracknell arrives and recognises Cecily’s tutor as her sister’s governess, family history is rewritten and being Earnest wins the day. Lady Bracknell refuses Jack on her daughter’s behalf, thinking him to be an orphan, so Gwendolyn makes plans to visit him in the country. Gwendolen forgives him, she says, because she feels he is sure to change. In the country, he assumes a serious attitude for the benefit of his young ward, Cecily, and goes by the name of Jack, while pretending that he has a wastrel younger brother named Ernest in London. When, at the end, he discovers that he really has been both Ernest and John all along, he tells Gwendolen that it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. However, Jack is forced to admit to Algernon that he is living a double life. Jack has come from the country to propose to Algernon's cousin, Gwendolen. ![]() ![]() First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Please note that this production is not part of our normal season of plays.īilled as A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Algernon is visited by his friend Jack Worthing ('Ernest') in town. The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. ![]()
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