Kerry Meads’ well-cast, cleverly designed and lavish staging is both funny and charming
Brian Salmon, left, David McBean and Deborah Gilmour Smyth in Lamb’s Players Theatre’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Over the past 25 or so years, Oscar Wilde’s comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest” has been professionally staged in San Diego four or five times. But it hasn’t always been staged right.
Rachael VanWormer as Gwendolen and Lauren King Thompson as Cecily in Lamb’s Players Theatre’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” The comic play, which runs just over two hours with intermission, is about English bachelor friends Algernon and Jack, who take turns playing the imaginary man “Earnest” to court their intended brides, presuming correctly that the name Earnest implies a sincerity that both men lack. The play skewers the social mores and pomposity of Victorian England’s upper crust.
Earlier this year, Cusimano played a roguish bad boy in Cygnet Theatre’s “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812.” His charismatic Algernon is another troublemaker, but this time more impish and cheeky in nature. Mackey’s endearing and wide-eyed Jack has a boyish determination to marry Gwendolyn, who is played with witty sophistication by Rachael VanWormer.
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