The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

By Oscar Wilde
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This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Ernest, "that name which inspires absolute confidence." Wilde's effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished plays in the English language.

This audiobook includes an interview with director Michael Hackett, professor of theater in the School of Theater, Film, and Television at UCLA.

This LA Theatre Works full-cast performance features James Marsters as Jack, Charles Busch as Lady Bracknell, Emily Bergl as Cecily, Neil Dickson as Lane and Merriman, Jill Gascoine as Miss Prism, Christopher Neame as Chasuble, Matthew Wolf as Algernon, and Sarah Zimmerman as Gwendolen. Directed by Michael Hackett, it was recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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  1. Holly
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    My favorite Oscar Wilde story

    "The Importance of Being Earnest" is by far my favorite Oscar Wilde story. I read the play, saw the movie, and decided to give the audiobook a shot, largely because James Marsters is on the cover and, well, he's a terrific audiobook narrator (notably for Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series). LA Theater Works knows what they're doing. This is a well-done piece of audio theater. The cast is superb, bringing Wilde’s hilarious comedy of manners vividly to life.

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