This final play from your pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, filled with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a dropped handbag. Jack and Algernon are close friends, both wooing females who think their names are Ernest, “that name which inspires total self-confidence.” Wilde’s effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished takes on in the British language.

Includes an interview with director Michael Hackett, Teacher of Theatre in the School of Movie theater, Film and Television at UCLA.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast functionality featuring:

James Marsters as Jack

Charles Busch as Lady Bracknell

Emily Bergl simply because Cecily

Neil Dickson while Lane and Merriman

Jill Gascoine simply because Miss Prism

Christopher Neame as Chasuble

Matthew Wolf as Algernon

Sarah Zimmerman as Gwendolen

Aimed by Michael Hackett. Recorded before a live market in the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.