Ever-popular masterpiece set to return to city stage

9:20am Friday 26th September 2008

CUCUMBER sandwiches, a lost handbag, and high society – it must be The Importance of Being Earnest.

Worcester-based Swan Theatre Amateur Company (STAC) will don period costume and stiff upper lips for their production of Oscar Wilde’s ever popular masterpiece.

Set in the elegant world of Mayfair and an English country manor, it follows friends John Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff as they woo loved ones while pretending to be who they are not, all under the disdainful watch of the redoubtable Lady Bracknell.

Directed by Tim Crow, who was responsible for 2007’s farce Charley’s Aunt, The Importance of Being Earnest runs at the Swan Theatre from Tuesday, October 7 to Saturday, October 11.

For tickets, priced between £5 and £9.50, call the box office number on 01905 611427 or visit worcesterlive.co.uk.