Performance Dates:
2nd & 3rd June 2023 at 7pm
10th June at 2pm & 7pm

Venue:
John Lees Centre
15 Evan Street, Penrith

To book your ticket, please go to:
https://www.trybooking.com/CGJEZ
 
Written by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Christine Snell

SYNOPSIS

Jack Worthing 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 several 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. In fact, Ernest is merely Jack’s alibi, a phantom that allows him to disappear for days at a time and do as he likes. Only Jack knows that he himself is Ernest. Ernest is the name Jack goes by in London, which is where he really goes on these occasions—probably to pursue the very sort of behaviour he pretends to disapprove of in his imaginary brother.

 
CAST

JOHN WORTHING. J.P. --- Richard Tonkin

ALGERNON MONCRIEFF --- Anthony Darvall

REV. CANON CHASUBLE.D.D --- Dennis Channells

MERRIMAN BUTLER --- Rhys Ward

LANE MANSERVANT --- David Attrill

LADY BRACKNELL --- Deirdre Campbell

GWENDOLEN FAIRFAX --- Chelsea Widdicombe

CECILY CARDEW --- Jessica Holmlund

MISS PRISM --- Michelle Butcher

CREATIVES

DIRECTOR --- Christine Snell

STAGE MANAGER --- Ronnie Crowe

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER --- Jeffrey Brocktoff

COSTUME DESIGN --- Leone Sharp

LIGHTING --- Hayley Ramsay

SOUND --- Hayley Ramsay & Christine Snell

HAIR & MAKEUP --- Ashleigh Kohler

PUBLICITY --- Anthony Brown

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