The COMPANY of PLAYERS

The Importance Of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
13th - 21st July 2007
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.

Cast

Alex Brace  Algernon
Mark Haumann  Jack
Claudia McKelvey  Lady Bracknell
Philippa Morton  Gwendoline
Darcie Allen  Cecily
Jackie Lawn  Miss Prism
Keith Morbey  Chasuble
Roger Slater  Lane
Adam Chamberlain  Merriman

Crew

Pippa Cooke  Production Secretary
Andy Kirtley  Stage Manager
Louise Kemplen  Asst. Stage Manager
Shelagh Maughan  Wardrobe
Pat Steadman  Prompt
Richard Dodwell & Paul Morton  Lights
David Crook  Sound
Chris Janes  Set Design

 

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