"The Importance of Beig Earnest" is perhaps Oscar Wilde's most popular play-since its his first performance in 1895, it has seen countless productions and three fil adaptations, and, in the words of the journalist Mark Lawson, is 'the second most known and quoted play in English after "hamlet" '.
Brimming with the counter-intuitive wit wich Wlide's name is synonymous, the play follows twho young men, Algernon and jack, as they come to grips with one another's 'Bunburying'-deceits involving invented identities and escaping unwanted socialising- wchich spiral out of control. Culminating in a hauntingly brilliant scene with a cast dripping with satire, an unpublished manuscript and an nforgettable handbag, "The Importanc of Being Earnest" lambasts the Victorian yearning for morality and meaning, and leaves the reader aching for an encore.
