Date/Time: Thursday, 18th December 2025 at 14:00
Location: Noel Coward Theatre, 85-88 St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4AP
Price: £55 per person. Member and guest £110. Face value £85pp
Event Organiser: Pete Wells. 7 Wayfaring Court, Safflower Lane, Harold Wood RM3 0LQ
The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is the last of Oscar Wilde‘s four drawing-room plays, following Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893) and An Ideal Husband (1895). First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James’s Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy depicting the tangled affairs of two young men about town who lead double lives to evade unwanted social obligations, both assuming the name Ernest while wooing the two young women of their affections.
The play, celebrated for its wit and repartee, parodies contemporary dramatic norms, gently satirises late Victorian manners, and introduces – in addition to the two pairs of young lovers – the formidable Lady Bracknell, the fussy governess Miss Prism and the benign and scholarly Canon Chasuble. Contemporary reviews in Britain and overseas praised the play’s humour, although some critics had reservations about its lack of social messages.
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