The Importance Of Being Earnest

David Suchet purses his lips and heaves his bosom as the indomitable Lady Bracknell in this live broadcast of Oscar Wilde's razor-sharp satire on Victorian manners from the stage of the Vaudeville Theatre in London's West End. Subtitled A Trivial Comedy For Serious People, the story centres on bachelor best friends Algernon Moncrieff and John Worthing, who adopt different identities as they swan between dual lives in the city and country. The elaborate ruse has unforeseen consequences.

Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are best friends with much in common. Both men are in the amorous pursuit of young ladies – Algernon’s cousin Gwendolen and lustrous Cecily Cardew respectively – and they are also leading double lives. Jack is known as Ernest to his friends in the city; meanwhile, Algernon has conjured a fictitious friend, Bunbury, in the country, whose ill health gives him the perfect excuse to avoid his domineering aunt, Lady Bracknell. A comedy of errors ensues between the four lovers.

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