The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners. In town Jack Worthing is Ernest; in the country he is Jack, guardian to young Cecily and brother to an invented scoundrel named Ernest. The name buys him freedom - and it is the only name Gwendolen Fairfax will consent to love. Then his friend Algernon borrows the same name and turns up at the country house. Two men, one name, and a handbag left long ago at Victoria Station.