...Earnest?
Show type: Tour
When a traditional production of Oscar Wilde’s classic play gets underway, everything seems to be going perfectly to plan… that is until the lead actor fails to arrive on cue and an actual audience member is chosen to star in the show.
What follows is a madcap medley of impromptu games and spontaneous solutions as the desperate director does his best to keep this faithful production going. But with stage whiskey being swapped, off-the-cuff auditions being held, and muffins being eaten (no matter what state they’re in), there’s just no telling what this unique version of The Importance of Being Earnest is going to throw up. Especially when more audience members are drafted in to replace an ever-thinning cast… With the script ripped up and rewritten, can the show reach its fabulous finale, just as Oscar Wilde intended?
This show was originally titled The Importance of Being … Earnest? at Edinburgh.
Upcoming Dates
Date: Wed 30 Apr 2025
Venue: Loughborough Town Hall
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Wed 7 May 2025
Venue: Newcastle Tyne Theatre & Opera House
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Thu 8 May 2025
Venue: Newcastle Tyne Theatre & Opera House
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Mon 12 May 2025
Venue: Crewe Lyceum Theatre
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Tue 13 May 2025
Venue: Crewe Lyceum Theatre
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Thu 22 May 2025
Venue: High Wycombe Swan
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Fri 23 May 2025
Venue: High Wycombe Swan
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sat 24 May 2025
Venue: Coventry Warwick Arts Centre
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sun 25 May 2025
Venue: Coventry Warwick Arts Centre
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Show starts: 15:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sat 31 May 2025
Venue: Reading Hexagon
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Fri 6 Jun 2025
Venue: Colchester Mercury Theatre
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sat 7 Jun 2025
Venue: Colchester Mercury Theatre
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Mon 9 Jun 2025
Venue: Northampton Royal & Derngate
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Tue 10 Jun 2025
Venue: Cheltenham Everyman
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Wed 11 Jun 2025
Venue: Cheltenham Everyman
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Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)