...Earnest?
12 May 2025 - 13 May 2025
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“When I pitch it to my non-theatre friends,” explains Simon Paris, the director & co-writer of …Earnest?, “I say we’re putting on a very traditional, classical play [Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest], and it’s all going well until the lead actor doesn’t show up. The director comes out, apologises, and says ‘It’s okay, because one of you is going to do it.’ We then find the best person in the audience to play this role, and they do it.”
What could possibly go wrong? Well, in common with shows such as Noises Off, the answer is, pretty much everything, with the desperate director (of the play within the play) doing his best to keep the production on track as more and more audience members are drafted in to replace an ever-thinning cast...
A fun evening is definitely in prospect - particularly if you have aspirations to tread the boards yourself!