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NCC Presents The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

NCC students Candace Daughtridge and Laura Pearce look over hairstyle choices for actors during a Wednesday afternoon production meeting.

There will be more to savor than just a delicious meal as Nash Community College drama and Culinary Arts program present one of the most delightful and memorable social comedies, The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde for the annual dinner theatre. It is a comedy of manners that satirizes Victorian manners and customs, but does so with a light, witty style and charming cynicism that is absolutely delicious. Also adding their collaborative flavor to the production are the NCC Advertising and Graphic Design and Cosmetology programs. In the play, two young gentlemen rely on subterfuge and dissimulation to escape life’s tedious duties. However, their deceptions eventually cross paths, resulting in a series of hilarious discoveries that threaten to spoil their romantic pursuits. Here is just a sample of the delightful repartee to be savored in the show:

“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.”

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.”

– Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Show-only performances will be Friday, March 15 at 7:00pm and Sunday, March 17 at 2:00pm. Tickets are $5 for show-only performances. The dinner theatre is Saturday, March 16 with doors opening at 5:00pm and dinner served promptly at 5:30pm. Tickets for the dinner theatre are $22. Tickets for the dinner theatre or show-only performances can be purchased in advance at the NCC cashier’s window. Tickets will also be sold at the door, but it is highly recommended to purchase your dinner theatre tickets in advance, as seating is limited. All performances are held at Nash Community College’s Brown Auditorium.