In Oscar Wilde's classic trivial comedy, two very different bachelors both employ the use of made-up alibis in order to escape their everyday lives - but in a whirl of deception and mistaken identity, both men find themselves scrambling to hold their lies together in the face of love!
The Importance of Being Earnest is a masterpiece combination of love, logic and language. Taking place in a world full of gentlemen and ladies. Jack loves Gwendolen, Algernon loves Cecily, but both of them are engaged to the roguish Ernest - much to the disapproval of the formidable Lady Bracknell.
The only problem is that Ernest doesn’t actually exist and - when his true identity is revealed - being “earnest” takes on a whole new meaning!
The Importance of Being Earnest is, quite simply, one of the funniest plays ever written in the English language, and it retains its ability to entertain and amuse some 127 years after it was written.