Friendship and rivalry intersect in what is perhaps Oscar Wilde’s most enduring play. The Importance of Being Earnest critiques high society as the ridiculous lives of its aristocratic characters disrupt the landscape of Victorian England. Join the serving class as witnesses to the antics of Jack and Algernon, Gwendoline and Cecily, and Lady Bracknell. Cases of mistaken identity put Jack and Algernon in side-splitting peril, endangering their friendship and the devotions of their love interests, Gwendoline and Cecily. The more reasoned voices of Miss Prism and Dr. Chasuble get caught up in drama and absurdity while the truth (in the form of Lady Bracknell) makes its way to meet them all in the English countryside. The disorder that follows from the deception, rivalry, drama, and farce reveals just how important it is to be Earnest.