The Importance of Being Earnest at Mad Artists’ Entertainment

John Worthing is leading a double life. In his posh London flat, he’s known as the dashing and playful Ernest, but in his country estate he’s simply the responsible and respectable Jack. When his charming and trouble-making best friend Algernon discovers John’s schemes, he takes on his own alternate identity and poses as Jack’s brother leading to a complex series of misunderstandings and farcical situations. Oscar Wilde’s enduring 1895 comedy playfully skewers the mannered conventions of social class, marriage, gender, and religion with charm and wit.