We are very proud to announce The Importance of Being Earnest in the form of an enhanced ebook with embedded audio, where you can simultaneously listen and read along to each scene of this classic play.
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About the play:
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.
Includes an interview with director Michael Hackett, Professor of Theater in the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA.
Cast:
James Marsters as Jack
Charles Busch as Lady Bracknell
Emily Bergl as Cecily
Neil Dickson as Lane/Merriman
Jill Gascoine as Miss Prism
Christopher Neame as Chasuble
Matthew Wolf as Algernon
Sarah Zimmerman as Gwendolen
Directed by Michael Hackett. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in June, 2009.
Avaliable on: CD, Download, Playaway
ISBN for CD: 9781580815895 List Price for CD: US $25.95 2 CDs
118 minutes
Unabridged