The Importance of Being Earnest

“You answer to the name of Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn’t Ernest.”

Enjoy classic comedy in Perth Theatre as Lu Kemp directs Oscar Wilde’s trivial comedy for serious people!

Jack and Algernon are best friends. Jack is Ernest in town. Algernon is Ernest in the country. But can two friends ever be Ernest at once? Enter two eligible young ladies, a mother-in-law, a governess, and a baby in a handbag… and suddenly being truly Earnest has never been more important.

A play about the ruling class making the trivial serious and the serious utterly trivial. Surely nothing could be less relevant today…

Tickets and Information:

Preview: (Thu 5 + Fri 6 Mar): 7.30pm £15, £13, £11

Concessions £12, £11, £10

Students/Young Scot cardholders/under 26s £10

Arts Worker £11.50, £10.50, £9.50 (inc £1.50 booking fee per ticket)

Peak: (Sat 7, Tue 10 - Sat 14, Tue 17 - Sat 21 Mar: 7.30pm) £27, £25, £21, £11.50

Concessions £25, £23, £19, £10

Students/Young Scot cardholders/under 26s £10

Arts Worker £11.50, £10.50, £9.50 (inc £1.50 booking fee per ticket)

Off-Peak: (Wed 11 Mar: 1.30pm, Sat 14 + 21 Mar: 2.30pm, Wed 18 Mar:

10.30am) £25, £23, £21, £11.50

Concessions £23, £21, £19, £10

Students/Young Scot cardholders/under 26s £10

Arts Worker £11.50, £10.50, £9.50 (inc £1.50 booking fee per ticket)

BSL/ Audio Described performance: Sat 21 Mar: 2.30pm

Special schools price available for selected performances. Contact our Box Office on 01738 621031 for more information.

Supported by Bright Spirits With match funding from Culture and Business Fund Scotland

Book The Croft, The Importance of being Earnest and Macbeth at the same time and save 20% (excludes preview performances, students, Young Scot cardholders, under 26s and Arts Workers)

Tickets and further information available on the Horsecross website.

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