OuTaTown Productions to Present THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Oscar Wilde's famous satire about convention, truth, lies and social expectation is coming to The Zenith Theatre this March.

In this post-truth age, obsessed with appearance, Wilde's beloved comedy has never been more pertinent!

First performed 1895 in London, The Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in which characters devise a plan to create and maintain fictitious personas to escape what they perceive to be burdensome social obligations. The plot unfolds a web of distortions and untruths often with hilarious results. The play's high farce and witty dialogue seem more and more relevant in this modern age. Wilde's ability to see human nature in all its flair and folly have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduring play which has been staged professionally more than 80 times since its premiere and adapted into numerous films, operas, musicals and TV productions. The Importance of Being Earnest is part satire, part comedy of manners, and part intellectual farce. The show is hilariously funny and has for centuries delighted audiences. OuTaTown's production is no exception!

Performer Christine Greenough and director Allan Walpole have combined their decades of experience to craft this incredible production with a clear eye for exactitude. OuTaTown's production honours Wilde's script and time - Greenough and Walpole believe that the play remains as poignant and important as ever and does not need modern embellishment to express the play's core themes. The concerns of the play are easy to see from a twenty-first-century perspective with the commentary on generational gaps and pressures, social conventions dictating personal lives and the importance of having the freedom to be oneself.

This sharp and honest production takes aim at the self-righteous moralism and hypocrisy that plagues the human condition and skilfully highlights that society may have changed and yet, for the most part, has remained the same.

Tickets are $40 Adults. $33 Groups 10+. $30 Preview/Concessions. To book, visit premier.ticketek.com.au.