The Importance of Being Earnest at Miles Memorial Playhouse

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde is perfect for a summer's night. Starring Los Angeles audience favorite John Achorn as the uproarious Lady Bracknell and four women in the leading roles - including Lisa Wolpe as Jack - this truly gender-bending production highlights the role-playing inherent in courtship and underscores the play's unconventional attitudes towards romance and sexuality. In this hysterical, fast-moving, 75-minute gem, dashing Jack loves lovely Gwendolyn. His best friend, the handsome Algernon, adores the sensational Cecliy. All should be well - except that both men aren't quite as earnest as they seem. Having dreamed up alternate identities for themselves to escape unwanted social obligations, they're now having trouble keeping their multilayered, conflicting stories straight. This masterpiece of manners is a hilariously scathing critique of social hypocrisy, as relevant today as when it was first written in 1895. Part of the Wicked Wilde Shakespeare Festival.