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Oregon Shakespeare Festival Presents The Importance of Being Earnest
A comedy of (hardly any) manners. Director Desdemona Chiang transports Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of manners to the British Malay Peninsula, a colonial melting pot of South Asian, Chinese, and English communities. Two rakish young men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, opt to navigate Victorian-era expectations of courtship simply by evading them. But when their personas and egos begin to collide, the pair get caught up in a wit-fueled whirlwind of mistaken identities and romantic snafus. This “trivial comedy for serious people” reveals the absurd lengths that humans will go to in pursuit of acceptance, love, and truth.
Angus Bowmer Theatre
From its inception, the Angus Bowmer Theatre has welcomed theatergoers with the graciousness of the man for whom it was named, OSF’s founder Angus L. Bowmer. The immediacy between company and audience members in this space allows for theatrical voyages of human discovery, guided by some of the world’s greatest classical and contemporary playwrights. The theatre seats 600, and quite seriously, there is no bad seat in the house.
About Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States, founded in 1935 by Angus L. Bowmer. The Festival now offers matinee and evening performances of a wide range of classic and contemporary plays not limited to Shakespeare.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Presents The Importance of Being Earnest
March 30, 2025
Sunday
8:30 PM – 10:30:00 PM
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Angus Bowmer Theatre, 20 E Main St, Ashland
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Angus Bowmer Theatre
20 E Main St
Ashland, Oregon 97520
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