The Hunter College Theatre Department presents

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. 

 

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Esther Neff reimagines Oscar Wilde's classic Victorian comedy on the romantic foibles of the British upper class as a reality TV show filmed in our present era of extreme economic inequality. As the director states in their program note:

 

Our production satirizes the way in which the wealthy fabricate their own world and ours...By setting the play in our own present, we may aim to provide a lucid image of the ironic cruelties in our own society.

 

We hope you will join us for this contemporary reinvention of a work that has become a popular standard throughout the English-speaking world. 

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