FROM THE ARCHIVES

Season: 2006-2007

13th – 21st July 2007 at 8pm The Importance of Being Earnest

By Oscar Wilde

Directed by David Harrold

One of the funniest comedies in the English language. Wilde masterfully combines mistaken identity and social comment with hilarious consequences.

Jack regularly flees his country home for London with the excuse of tending to his scandalous and nonexistent-younger brother Ernest. When his best friend, Algernon, learns of this deception and that Jack has a beautiful young ward named Cecily whom he keeps stashed away in the country-he sets off to meet her, pretending that he is Ernest.

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CAST

Algernon

Jack

Lady Bracknell

Claudia McKelvey

Gwendoline

Cecily

Miss Prism

Chasuble

Lane

Merriman

Adam Chamberlain

CREATIVE TEAM

Production Secretary

Stage Manager

Assistant Stage Manager

Wardrobe

Shelagh Maughan

Prompter

Lighting

Richard Dodwell, Paul Morton

Sound

Set Design

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