the importance of being earnest

     

Act 2 of this farce finds Algernon Moncrieff earnestly pretending to be Ernest Worthing

Trivia about the importance of being earnest

  • "Important" Oscar Wilde play that begins in a London flat & ends in a country manor house
  • Composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco went "Wilde" & turned this Oscar Wilde play into a 1962 opera
  • Algernon: "You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life"
  • Wilde play that says, "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune...to lose both seems like carelessness"
  • Wilde play that says, "To lose one parent... may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness"
  • This play satirizing the shallowness of British society was first produced in 1895
  • The Times said Brian Bedford as Lady Bracknell is "the highlight" of the "effervescent" 2011 revival of this Wilde comedy
  • This Oscar Wilde play is "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People"
  • Oscar Wilde combined with comedy with farce for this play, his last & most famous
  • Reese had an Oscar Wilde time in this 2002 film set in the 1890s