Batavia Players present their spring production of Oscar Wilde’s "The Importance of Being Earnest" this week. Show time is 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, May 20-22.
PLEASE NOTE: The venue has changed to John Kennedy School, 166 Vine St., in Batavia. (It was earlier planned for the Players' New Harvester Theater.)
General admission tickets are $10. Students and seniors pay $8. You can buy tickets online at < www.bataviaplayers.org> or at the door. Or you can also buy tickets by calling 1-866-967-8167.
Wilde's most popular play, which he characterized as "a trivial comedy for serious people," premiered on Valentine's Day in 1895 at London's St. James Theatre.
It is set in England during the late Victorian Era and is filled with witty dialogue and satirizes some of the societal foibles and hypocrisy of the day. Much of the humor is derived from two of the male characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome obligations and the confusion that ensues.
