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Oscar Wilde's The Important of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde’s a comedy of good manners, bad manners, and all manner of things in between, The Importance of Being Earnest, will open Moonbox Production’s 2013-14 season, November 22 - December 14 (Press Performance if Sunday November 24 at 2pm) at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Plaza Theatre, 539 Tremont Street, South End Boston. Performances are Wednesday November 28 at 7:30pm, Thursdays at 7:30pm (no performance Thanksgiving), Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm & 8pm and Sundays at 8pm. Tickets are general $35, student/senior $30 plus fees.  For tickets call Boston Theatre Scene box office at 617-933-8600 or online at www.bostontheatrescene.com.


Gwendolen loves Ernest, and he loves her. Cecily loves Ernest too, though he’s only just finding that out. But is it a lover’s triangle, or is there room for two happy couples in Oscar Wilde’s madcap romance–and what will fearsome Lady Bracknell have to say about it? This quintessential comedy of proper manners, by the quintessential bad boy of his day, includes mislaid babies, mistaken identities, secret engagements, baffled suitors, and some of the wittiest wordplay ever volleyed over cucumber sandwiches. 

IRNE and Elliot Norton Award nominated director Allison Choat will direct what Wilde dubbed his “trivial comedy for serious people.”  She explains the company’s choice , “At the risk of being trite, I suppose I’d have to say I want to do this show because it’s a great piece of comic art – but I was only going to attempt it because I think we have the people necessary bring it to life in a way it deserves. Reading through Earnest gives you a wonderful sense of its complex language, its keen wit, its clever circumstances and contrivances. But all that language is nothing without an intelligent, and above all, vital, group of interpreters – and I can’t believe our good fortune in finding a cast that fits that bill so exactly.”

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The cast (alpha order) includes Catherine Lee Christie (Miss Prism); Cat Claus (Gwendolen); Gabriel Graetz (Rev.Canon Chasuble, D.D.) Poornima Kirby (Cecily); Glen Moore (Algernon); Ray O’Hare (Merriman); Ed Peed (Lady Bracknell), Andrew Winson (Jack Worthing, J.P.), and Matthew Zahnzinger (Lane).  The  design/creative team include Dan Rodriguez (original music), John Devlin (Set Designer), and Susanne Miller (Costume Designer).


Moonbox Productions was founded in 2011 by Producer/Artistic Director Sharman Altshuler. It is based in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is dedicated to supporting local arts and local artists, and to connecting communities to the non-profit organizations that serve them. To fulfill their artistic mission, Moonbox taps the deep well of talent within their own communities to bring top quality theatrical experiences to stages throughout the greater Boston area.  To fulfill their social mission, they partner with a local non-profit organization for each show, giving them visibility on their website and in their promotional materials, as well as giving them access to their audiences in order to raise awareness of their cause, create connections within the community, and increase the reach and impact of their work.

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