Word: moncrieff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of the outlandish elements of the play: its baby found in a handbag, its imperious dowager, Lady Bracknell (Elizabeth Wilson), who is "a monster with out being a myth, its one young man, John Worthing (James Valentine), who invents a dissolute brother, and its other young man, Algernon Moncrieff (John Glover), who blithely proceeds to impersonate him. This is farce walking the tightrope of absurdity. But it is also farce at its most urbane - as insolently monocled in manner as it is killingly high-toned in language...
...good thing so many of Wild's lines are virtually actor-proof, bacause in the Leverett House production they need all protection they can get. The problem begins with director Samuel Bloomfield's conception of the play. The two sets of main characters--Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, the spoiled, young dandies, and Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew, the vain, young ingenues who wish for beaux named "Earnest"--should appear essntially interchangeable. Otherwise, the contusion of identities in the second act and the symmetry of the romantic pairings at the end make little dramatic sense...
...evidence that they ever met each other, but in Travesties, they do. Stoppard was further intrigued by a suit filed against Joyce by one Henry Carr for the price of a pair of trousers. A minor British consular official, Carr had purchased the trousers to play Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest for a Joyce-managed troupe called the English Players...
Members of PANIC also chided Councillor Robert Moncrieff, chairman of the Council's subcommittee on cable television, for not issuing an official report on the city's recent hearings on the issue...
Most of the candidates for City Council, including the progressive Cambridge Civic Association slate, liberal incumbents Barbara Ackerman and Robert Moncrieff, independent candidates, and Socialist Workers Party candidates showed up for the 'illegal' meeting and spoke to a group in the street. Five councillors were conspicuously absent: incumbents Thomas Danehy, Daniel Clinton, Walter Sullivan, Alfred Velluci, and Thomas Coates. It is clear from this incident that these candidates do not want to discuss in public the present state of the government they run. The interests of these same politicians are served by Cronin's decision...