The Importance of Being Earnest

  • June 20 - 23, 2024

  • Welsbacher Theatre, Wichita State University Metroplex

    East 29th Street North & Oliver - Door F - Northeast Side of the Building
    Wichita, Kansas 67220
Ticket Price $15.00-$30.00 This event is now over
Description

Oscar Wilde's 1895 Comic Masterpiece - Re-imagined in the 21st century!  One of the wittiest plays ever written, and the only known trifecta of playwriting to include a food fight, a baby rescued from the lost-and-found, and yummy cucumber sandwiches. 

Jack Worthing and his buddy Algernon are respectable young men in public. However both have developed a secret identity (Codename 'Earnest') to escape the monotony of daily life. What they will do when the women they love BOTH develop an obsession with the mysterious (and non-existent) Earnest is anyone's guess. 

Equal parts satire and whimsical joy, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is about identity, self-fashioning and what we see when we look in the mirror. Oscar Wilde's elegant comedy holds that mirror up to a society full of people longing to "connect", but hampered by their own silliness and ridiculous posing.

Date & Time

Jun 20 - 23, 2024

Venue Details

Welsbacher Theatre, Wichita State University Metroplex

East 29th Street North & Oliver - Door F - Northeast Side of the Building
Wichita, Kansas 67220 Welsbacher Theatre, Wichita State University Metroplex
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