Name: The Importance of Being Earnest
Start: 2025-04-25T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-25T22:00:00-05:00
Location: 700 N 4th St, Springfield, IL, United States, Illinois 62702

Enjoy a night at the theater in our historic house museum. This years play is "The Importance of Being Earnest", a comedy by Oscar Wilde, one of his best known.
The Importance of Being Earnest is set in late Victorian London. The leading male characters maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Two young women—the somewhat sophisticated Gwendolen (from the city) and the somewhat naive Cecily (from the country)—claim to love Earnest Worthing. However, Gwendolen believes Jack Worthing is Earnest, and Cecily thinks Algy Moncrieff is Earnest. Each woman insists that she could never love a man who wasn't named Earnest. In the midst of these misimpressions, Lady Bracknell—who fails to concur with the idea of anyone loving anyone—appears. Still, Wilde sorts out the situation to everyone’s satisfaction in what is widely regarded as one of the greatest English comedies.
This play is directed by Mark Buckholz.