Presented by You’ll Miss the Tide Productions
The inaugural season of In The Raw, a monthly series of staged play readings, continues with the Oscar Wilde’s wicked comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest at Tamworth Community Centre with a touring performance to the Playhouse, Barraba on Sunday 4th June.
Entry is just $20 and audiences are welcome to B.Y.O drinks and nibbles.
About the play – Oscar Wilde’s delightfully naughty helter-skelter ride of mistaken identities, secret engagements, and entangled lovers. A satire of Victorian London’s social hypocrisy as delicious as the bread & butter and cucumber sandwiches!
First performed on the 14th February 1895 at the St James Theatre London, Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece of the aesthetic movement, the most elegant of comedies of manners, is a rapid fire shelling of ‘Victorian Earnestness’, as ‘laughably pretentious at its best’, and ‘viciously hypocritical at its worst’.
CAST: Peter Ross, Jessi Le Brocq, Ben Simpson, Natacha Curnow, Ethan Faulks, Samantha Brice, Emelia Rixon & Liam Higham.
DIRECTOR: Andrew Sharp
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing” – Gwendolen Fairfax (ACT III)
