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 paradigm of Wildean comedy, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, By Oscar Wilde, is “a trivial play 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”.

The play consists of three 45-minute acts, with two 15-minute intervals between acts.

Latecomers will be allowed within 15 minutes of show start.