Press - The Importance of Being Earnest

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
by Oscar Wilde
directed by Warner Shook
February 8 - March 9, 2008
Segerstrom Stage

Oscar Wilde’s most popular play has been called the funniest in the English language. It’s certainly the most outrageously frivolous with intricate twists and turns, through which the characters move while they carry on sparkling conversations about life — and love. Algernon and Jack are in love with two delectable young women, both of whom have illogically sworn to marry only men named Ernest. And so the pretense — and the fun — begins. Although Wilde’s plot is wonderfully witty, his wit is serious, as he adroitly uses it to skewer the Victorian English upper class and utterly charm everyone else.

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(l. to r.) Tommy Schrider as Jack Worthington and Michael Gotch as Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest at South Coast Repertory Feb. 8 - March 9. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.		Tommy Schrider as Jack Worthington and Christine Marie Brown as Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest at South Coast Repertory Feb. 8 - March 9. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.		Michael Gotch as Algernon Moncrieff and Kandis Chappell as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest at South Coast Repertory Feb. 8 - March 9. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.

(l. to r.) Tommy Schrider as Jack Worthington, Kandis Chappell as Lady Bracknell and Christine Marie Brown as Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest at South Coast Repertory Feb. 8 - March 9. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.		(l. to r.) Christine Marie Brown as Gwendolen Fairfax, John-David Keller as Merriman and Elise Hunt at Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest at South Coast Repertory Feb. 8 - March 9. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.

The cast in The Importance of Being Earnest at South Coast Repertory Feb. 8 - March 9. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.		(l. to r.) Michael Gotch as Algernon Moncrieff and Tommy Schrider as Jack Worthington in The Importance of Being Earnest at South Coast Repertory Feb. 8 - March 9. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.