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The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde & Travesties by Tom Stoppard Double Bill

Saturday 27 March, 5.30pm & 7.45pm

Progress Youth Theatre
Floodlights & Blinders Present:
The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
& Travesties by Tom Stoppard

Wilde’s classic comedy of manners and Stoppard’s satirical farce Together in one week!

DOUBLE BILL!

The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

A rollicking comedy of manners and errors! Jack and his friend Algy create alter egos in order to escape their everyday lives. All very well until they discover Cecily and Gwendolin (the young women they love) are in love with someone who is not (quite) them.  Will true love survive a Gorgon mother, babies in handbags, train stations, Christenings, repulsive names, cucumber sandwiches (or lack of!), cake, muffins and tea?!?

Travesties by Tom Stoppard

Carr, in his 80s, remembers back (fondly, if somewhat erratically) to the good old days at the British Consulate in Zurich in 1917.  The year he played ‘the other one – not Earnest’ in The Importance of being Earnest. The year he met, and fell out with, James Joyce, author of Ulysses, at that time Manager of ‘The English Players’.  Carr’s mind plays mix and match with figures in history who were in Zurich at the time of the War (Lenin & his wife Nadya and Tristan Tzara, a Rumanian poet and Dadaist) and characters straight out of The Importance of being Earnest.  What ensues is a romp through farce, satire, word-play, historical play, sharp wit and social comment.

Earlier performances in the Progress Youth Theatre Week as follows:
The Importance Of Being Earnest:  Mon 22 & Wed 24 March, 7.45pm
Travesties: Tues 23 & Fri 26 March, 7:45pm 

Tickets £8, concessions £6
Save £2 when you buy tickets for both shows together

Subject to booking fee