Importance Of Being Earnest / Lantern Theatre / 14-24 May 14 / 7:30p

[TheLantern]

By Oscar Wilde and presented by The DGP

 

Tickets £10 each (concessions available) and Sheffield Forum users can use LTBOOKFREE at the checkout to save on the £1.50 booking fee (valid on all bookings made before 11:59pm on 19 May 2014 for any night of the run).

 

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Jack loves Gwendolen, but she has fallen in love with his fictitious brother Ernest, an alter ego he has invented in order to escape the country for a life of excess in town. Meanwhile Jack's young ward Cecily also falls in love with Ernest when he turns up unannounced at Jack's country home.

 

Will Jack be able to rid himself of his disruptive imaginary brother? Will he be able to find his long-lost parents? And will they be enough to satisfy Gwendolen's domineering and socially ambitious mother Lady Bracknell?

 

This "trivial comedy for serious people" would be Oscar Wilde's last work, as his own double life became public soon after its premiere. An actor in the original production remarked he had never remembered a greater triumph, and "Earnest" is just as witty and sharp today as it was when it was first seen nearly 120 years ago.