Uploaded October 2017 | Updated September 2026, 18 minutes ago
The cast talks about lying in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.
Go behind the scenes of the first show of the 2017-18 Season - Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST!
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
Onstage October 5-15, 2017
Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre
http://www.crt.uconn.edu/ or 860-486-2113
There is no wit quite like Wilde. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde blends the absurdities of farce with the sharp critique of social satire, creating one of the most highly regarded comedies of all time. The play follows the double lives of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, men who invent circumstances that give them excuses to escape the strictures of family, duty, and social responsibility. But once you begin lying, how do you know when to stop? As each man’s romantic interest becomes entangled in the web of fantasies and deceits, Wilde’s characters find themselves in a dizzying world in which “the truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
The Saturday, October 14th at 2:00pm will be ASL Interpreted.
This production is co-sponsored by The Rainbow Center
Photography and Editing by Matt Pugliese
The cast talks about lying in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.
Go behind the scenes of the first show of the 2017-18 Season - Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST!
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
Onstage October 5-15, 2017
Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre
http://www.crt.uconn.edu/ or 860-486-2113
There is no wit quite like Wilde. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde blends the absurdities of farce with the sharp critique of social satire, creating one of the most highly regarded comedies of all time. The play follows the double lives of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, men who invent circumstances that give them excuses to escape the strictures of family, duty, and social responsibility. But once you begin lying, how do you know when to stop? As each man’s romantic interest becomes entangled in the web of fantasies and deceits, Wilde’s characters find themselves in a dizzying world in which “the truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
The Saturday, October 14th at 2:00pm will be ASL Interpreted.
This production is co-sponsored by The Rainbow Center
Photography and Editing by Matt Pugliese
