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The Importance of Being Ernest
(page under construction)
by Oscar WildeRushen Amateur Dramatic Society
December 3rd - 5th 1958
Rushen Primary School
| Jack Worthing, the play’s protagonist, is a pillar of the community in Hertfordshire, where he is guardian to Cecily Cardew, the pretty, eighteen-year-old granddaughter of the late Thomas Cardew, who found and adopted Jack when he was a baby. In Hertfordshire, Jack has responsibilities: he is a major landowner and justice of the peace, with tenants, farmers, and a number of servants and other employees all dependent on him. For years, he has also pretended to have an irresponsible black-sheep brother named Ernest who leads a scandalous life in pursuit of pleasure and is always getting into trouble of a sort that requires Jack to rush grimly off to his assistance. |
| Produced by | O S Wrangham, |
| Cast | |
| Lane (a manservant) | Hector Matthews |
| Algernon Moncrieff | Ivor Quaggin |
| John Worthing JP | Don Williamson |
| Lady Bracknell | Kathleen Squire |
| Hon. Gwendolin Fairfax | May Matthews |
| Miss. Prism | Olive Gibb |
| Cecily Cardew | Eileen Buchan |
| Rev. Canon Chasuble DD | Gerald Mangham |
| Merriman (a butler) | O S Wrangham |
| Maid | Virginia Matthews |
| Crew | |
| Stage Managser | R G Thomson & H W Brown |
| Asst. Stage Manager | W Ligertwood |
| Lighting | F Cooper |
| Properties | Norah Cubbon & Olive Thomson |
| Costumes by | Messrs. Charles H Fox Ltd., London |
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