A Gay Importance of Being Earnest

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QUEER CLASSICS PRESENTS
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
BY OSCAR WILDE
DIRECTED BY CASEY KRINGLEN

2014 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL
LET LIVE THEATRE AT THE ACTORS COMPANY

Queer Classics re-imagines one of the most popular comedic plays ever written — Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, by presenting the four lovers in th...

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HOLLYWOOD FRINGE: ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’ At The Actors Company

Toby.Brown | June 9, 2014 | 10:46 p.m. PDT

Contributing Writer

There are some playwrights who would be outraged to learn of a future where the female roles they wrote were transformed into male roles in order to further an agenda of normalizing homosexuality… but Oscar Wilde would probably not be one of them. Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” has been argued by many scholars as being a lightly veiled comedy about secret homosexuality—apparently all but completely unnoticed...

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The Importance of Being Earnest
Let Live Theatre through June 22

A new theatre company called Queer Classics lives up to its name with its unabashedly gay adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde farce The Importance of Being Earnest, premiering at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. As with most of Wilde’s plays, there is something intrinsically queer about the sensibility of the original 1895 script, even though the characters were heterosexual. Queerness sort of seeps out between the lines in most works of the celebrated Irish scribe, whose own tragic true story is so eloquently told in Moises Kaufman’s masterful docudrama Gross...

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June 08, 2014

Having recently moved back to Los Angeles after ten years, I am currently having my first encounter with the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Talking with others before the show I was told that Fringe shows were mostly vanity productions (cheap to mount and giving just a few performances during the month of June) and the audience was usually made up of friends and relations. In other words—viewer beware. Well I feel like I really lucked out with my first show, Queer Classics’ version of The Importance of Being Earnest.

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Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy is undoubtedly the non-musical theatre piece I have seen more than any other, easily as many as f...

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QUEER CLASSICS PRESENTS

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
BY OSCAR WILDE
DIRECTED BY CASEY KRINGLEN

AT 2014 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL
FIVE PERFORMANCES ONLY
JUNE 7, 14, 15, 19, 22
LET LIVE THEATRE AT THE ACTORS ...