Play: The Importance of Being Ernest, Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde. What a fun play!

I am a bit frustrated with myself…the version that I downloaded to listen to was not great. It was a group of American actors trying to sound British. The male characters were ok, but the female characters were rather monotonous and stumbled over a few of the words. It came across as if they were just reading the piece for the sake of getting through it. So that was a bit disappointing, but I take full responsibility as I could have looked for another version, but had already downloaded this one.

Here are some wonderful quotes from the play:

‘The Amount of Women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.