The Importance Of Being Earnest
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company presents The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde's hilarious comedy about mistaken identities and secret engagements!
About The Importance Of Being Earnest
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.” Thus, we ponder, in matters of no importance, is the vital thing sincerity, not style?
The EUTC is delighted to be bringing Oscar Wilde's beloved classic to the Bedlam stage this Spring.
The paradigm of Wildean comedy, “The Importance of Being Earnest” is “a trivial comedy for serious people”.
The play follows characters, richly saturated with eccentricity, and their romantic ramblings within the rigidly ritualistic Victorian upper class.
For over a century, Wilde’s artwork has held up a looking glass to society, reflecting the hilarity of its behaviours, superfluous as well as profound, and revealing to us, through preposterous circumstances, with a delectable wit, that “the truth is rarely pure and never simple”.
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