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    The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage

    2015 · Comedy · 2h 50m

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  1. Oct 8, 2015 · The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage: Directed by Adrian Noble. With David Suchet, Emily Barber, Michael Benz, Philip Cumbus. In 1890's England, two friends use the pseudonym, Earnest, for their on-the-down-low activities, add in love and a strange coincidence and things get very funny.

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    • Comedy
    • Adrian Noble
    • 2015-10-08
  2. Oct 8, 2015 · The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage (2015) National treasure and Poirot star David Suchet starred as the formidable Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s much loved masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. Directed by Adrian Noble, (Amadeus, The King’s Speech, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) Wilde’s superb satire on Victorian manners is one ...

  3. Joao Seabra/Shutterstock.com. The Importance of Being Earnest was first staged at the St James's Theatre, London, on 14 February 1895. Like almost all contemporary theatres, the St James's had a proscenium arch stage. That is, the stage space was almost entirely behind a framed facade, so that if a room were depicted on the stage, as in Earnest ...

  4. Synopsis. Oscar Wilde’s brilliantly clever comedic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, was once called by critic W.H. Auden, “the only pure verbal opera in English.”. Earnest tells the story of two young gentlemen in London, who each live a double-life, creating elaborate deceptions to find some balance in their lives.

  5. Feb 25, 2018 · Enjoy this funny, witty, ironic and sarcastic classic play by Oscar Wilde.Mammoth Lakes Repertory Theater presents The Importance of Being Earnest, directed ...

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  6. The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. 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. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian ...

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  8. National treasure and Poirot star David Suchet starred as the formidable Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s much loved masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. Directed by Adrian Noble, (Amadeus, The King’s Speech, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) Wilde’s superb satire on Victorian manners is one of the funniest plays in the English language. Two bachelor friends, the adorable dandy Algernon ...

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