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It is perhaps such resonance, the free-wheeling association of Taymor's images and the magic of the text itself, that make watching this adaptation of Titus a sort of dreamlike experience which continues well after the film itself ends. The images of the film have a way of growing...
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest first premiered in 1894, but it remains refreshingly modern. A work of humor elevated to high art, the play is an illuminating critique confronting the thin line between the mainstream and the marginal, eccentricity and madness. Through comedy, Wilde wittily establishes the...
The Importance of Being Earnest is essentially a man's play. It's a story about how two men, Algernon Moncrief and John Worthing, cross back and forth into real and unreal selves through playing the part of Ernest to win the love of the women they wish to marry...
Far and away, the most charming and delightful character is Algy Moncrief, played superbly in this production by David Skeist '02. Algy, while an indulgent cad, has disarmingly endearing qualities. His lines are among the most poignant and comic in the play. Skeist personifies Wilde's Algy with verve and...
The heroines, Gwendolyn Fairfax (Ahana Kalappa '01), the erudite, cosmopolitan salon lady and Cecily Cardew (Britanni Sonnenberg '03), the eighteen-year-old ward of John Worthing, also have their moments. As the fiancees of John and Algy, they are demanding women. They cause their men to play at being Ernest...