June 20-23, 2024
Oscar Wilde’s 1895 Comic Masterpiece – Re-imagined in the 21st century! One of the wittiest plays ever written, and the only known trifecta of playwriting to include a food fight, a baby rescued from the lost-and-found, and yummy cucumber sandwiches.
Performance Times and Location
June 20-22 @ 7:30 p.m.
June 23 @ 2:00 p.m.
Welsbacher Theatre
WSU Metropolitan Complex
Door F (northeast side of building)
What to Expect
Jack Worthing and his buddy Algernon are respectable young men in public. However both have developed a secret identity (Codename ‘Earnest’) to escape the monotony of daily life. What they will do when the women they love BOTH develop an obsession with the mysterious (and non-existent) Earnest is anyone’s guess.
Equal parts satire and whimsical joy, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is about identity, self-fashioning and what we see when we look in the mirror. Oscar Wilde’s elegant comedy holds that mirror up to a society full of people longing to “connect”, but hampered by their own silliness and ridiculous posing.
Cast
Kiera Abrienne
Lady Augusta Bracknell
Coleman Adams
The Honorable John Worthing
James Earlywine
Mr. Algernon Moncrieff
Matthew Gwinner
Rev. Canon Chausuble
Jill Herbert
Miss Prism, Governess
Holland Lee Kiser
Ms. Gwendolen Fairfax
Hayley Longacre
Miss Cecily Cardew
Joe Smith
Lane and Merriman
Creatives
Dr. Julie Longhofer
Director and Scenic & Costume Design
Kirk Longhofer
Sound Design
Stan Longhofer
Lighting Design and Technical Direction
