Auditions​

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​​​​​​​​​‘The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ‘A trivial play for serious people’.

 

Performance dates: 15th - 19th September 2026

Audition: Friday 26th June, 7.30pm, Christ Church Hall, Christchurch Rd., Northampton.

 

Characters:

John Worthing, J.P.
Algernon Moncrieff
Rev. Canon Chasuble
Merriman, Butler
Lane, Manservant
Lady Bracknell
Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax
Cecily Cardew
Miss Prism, Governess

 

About the play:

Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) is a witty satire of Victorian social conventions, focusing on two idle gentlemen, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Both create false personas—"Ernest" and "Bunbury," respectively—to escape dull obligations and woo Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. Confusion ensues before a farcical revelation proves Jack is actually named‘. 

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