The Importance of Being Earnest
Barry Mawer directed Oscar Wilde's masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest in September 2011. Media Release The Importance of Being Earnest – an all time audience favourite Oscar Wilde’s most well-known and best loved play, The Importance of Being Earnest, is coming to Eastbourne audiences in September, courtesy of Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe. First performed in 1895, Wilde called it “a trivial comedy for serious people” and it is thought by some critics to have been the funniest play ever written. Director Barry Mawer says the play for him was a ‘must’, with so many wonderfully witty and memorable quotes that never tire. “We did it at
