![]() There is delicious interplay between Latimore and Goodrich, and Hurd and Haggard, with the two women, who bond in an instant friendship, a perfect mix of whipped cream and diamond-strong wills. The sparkling wordplay, and the tension between innocence and experience, and true love and romantic whimsy, are played to perfection here, with sparkling banter and the characters’ beguiling assortment of quirks and obsessions driving it at rapid-fire speed. ![]() And while the name of note is “Ernest,” it is earnestness that tends to be most valued, even if superficiality is the name of the game. All of the characters, as it turns out, possess both goodness and mischief. More explanation of the plot is hardly necessary except to say that it also involves Cecily’s deceptively prim governess and tutor, Miss Prism (Anita Chandwaney), her “friend,” Reverend Canon Chasuble (Aaron Todd Douglas), and the two very different butlers (one a model of sobriety, and the other invariably inebriated), both played hilariously by Ross Lehman. As it happens, Cecily and Algernon become infatuated at first glance, although Cecily’s diary would date things otherwise. In fact, he is a foundling who, as an infant, was left in a handbag in Victoria Station, rescued by a wealthy man, and now serves as guardian to that benefactor’s fetching daughter, Cecily Cardew (Rebecca Hurd). While John and Gwendolen agree to marry, Gwendolen’s mother will have none of it for, as it turns out, John does not meet her standards. Of course this duplicity generates no end of complications. Each man also has an “alibi” in the form of a perpetually ill friend (for Algernon) and a scoundrel brother (for John), that allows him to escape home as necessary, and pursue a libertine existence. Rebecca Huplays Cecily Cardew and Jennifer Latimore plays Gwendolen Fairfax in “The Importance of Being Earnest.” | Michael BrosilowĪlgernon Moncrieff (Steve Haggard) is a well-bred rascal who thrives in the city, while his friend, John (“Ernest”) Worthing is a country gentleman desperate to marry Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax (Jennifer Latimore), the stunning daughter of Lady Bracknell (Shannon Cochran). ![]()
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