The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People

Journeyman Theatre Company presents

The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy
for Serious People



You've never seen an Earnest like this! Oscar
Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest kicks off
Journeyman Theatre Company's Season at the Just
Off Broadway Theater, opening February 12th.

Ian R. Crawford directs this subversive new
production of Wilde's wittiest comedy. Wilde's
play is dripping with social commentary and
mockery of the oppressive strictures of Victorian
high society. Journeyman Theatre takes
Wilde's irreverence for everything serious to the
next level, featuring all cross-gender casting, to
highlight Wilde's skewering of traditional
gender roles in this thoroughly silly play. If
you are already enraptured with the play, or if
you have never seen it before, you will not want
to miss this unique, lush production!

Behaving well is very important but having fun is
much nicer. Meet Jack and Algernon, two of
London's most eligible bachelors. Algernon is a
bit of a bad boy, Jack is much more Earnest.
Join these two misfits on their tangled quest for
love. Will they get the girls, or be thwarted by
the fearsome Lady Bracknell? This quintessential
comedy of manners by the iconic bad boy of
Victorian England, includes abandoned babies,
mistaken identities, covert engagements, wooing
suitors, and some of the wittiest wordplay ever
written in the English language.

The cast features Zack Chaykin, Margaret Hanzlick,
Heather Hare, Lucas T. McVey, Elissa Schrader,
Justin Speer, Matt Sweeten and Chelsey Tighe.

Set and costume design by Ian R.Crawford, sound
design by Rustin R. Bolejack and lighting by
Kerry Chafin. Jonathan Jensen is assistant
director and dialect coach, Justin Cave is
dramaturge, and Christopher Bowe is the stage
manager.

Performances run February 12th-15th at 7:30pm,
Sunday the 15th at 2:30pm, February 19-22nd at
7:30pm, and Sunday the 23rd at 2:30pm

Don't miss this riotous good time with a special
Valentines day performance marking the 119th
anniversary of the first performance of The
Importance of Being Earnest in 1895.

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