The Importance Of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde at his best! The Importance of Being Earnest is subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is the best summary of the play!

Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station and named after a railway ticket, is prepared to be re-christened to obtain the Christian name, Earnest, his beloved Gwendolen requires of a husband.

He has to confront the stigma of being the illegitimate child of a servant, before fortune, and a benevolent dramatist, reveal his true and entirely respectable identity!