by Charlotte Keatley
3 – 12 July 2025 at 7.45pm;
Matinée: Saturday 5 July at 2.30pm
Tickets: £14 (Tickets on sale 14 April 2025)
Also known as A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Oscar Wilde’s classic satire of the upper classes portrays two young men, Jack and Algernon, who are keen to avoid their social obligations. Clearly, the easiest way to get out of anything is to pretend that your name is Ernest. Thus chaos, comedy and confusion ensues as both young men develop their own love interests, try to thwart each other and seek to avoid domination by the indomitable Lady Bracknell.
Fans of handbags, cucumber sandwiches, relations, carelessness, proposals, christenings, railway stations (especially the Brighton line) and governesses with secrets cannot fail to be entertained by Wilde’s witticisms and exaggerated characters.
Written in 1895, his play of conformity and resistance, duty and pleasure reminds us all that whilst to be earnest is a virtue, there is so much fun to be had in bending the rules.
Group Booking: 10 tickets available for the price of 9.
For tickets of more than 20 please contact the Box Office on 01883 349850 (Monday to Saturday, 10am–1pm). Group bookings can be made earlier than the onsale date by calling the Box Office.
This amateur production of ‘My Mother Said I Never Should’ is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd on behalf of Samuel French Ltd – concordtheatricals.co.uk
Cast
Algernon Moncrieff | tbc
Jack Worthing | tbc
Lady Bracknell | tbc
Gwendolen Fairfax | tbc
Mis Prism | tbc
Cecily Pardew | tbc
Canon Chasuble | tbc
Lane | tbc
Merman | tbc
Directed by John Shepherd