The Importance of Being Earnest is arguably the greatest screwball comedy ever written, and Wilde’s masterpiece still has the broadest appeal of any play in the Irish canon. Rough Magic’s production in The Gaiety Theatre has an unexpected twist: in a new interpretation by Stockard Channing, the battle-axe Lady Bracknell becomes a sharp-witted American beauty. As she observes, “When I married Lord Bracknell I had no fortune of any kind. But I never dreamed for a moment of allowing that to stand in my way.”
“The first act ingenious, the second beautiful, the third abominably clever.” Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest was awarded the following:
2011 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards Best Supporting Actress- Elenor Methven as Miss Prism.
