Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

We should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things of life with a sincere and studied triviality. - Oscar Wilde

First performed in 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest is a play in three acts full of mix-ups, unexpected plot twists, mistaken identities and extraordinary quickfire wit.

Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax both fall in love with a man called Ernest who d...