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Earnest

            
             The overall production of The Importance of Being Earnest was very interesting. The beginning moved rather slowly, but the play progressed as it went on. There were a few mistakes from the performers that I noticed, but they did an excellent job of covering them up and continuing on.
             The play was about two guys named Algernon and Jack. They meet two girls, which they decide they want to marry. The only reason these girls want to marry them is because they told their girlfriends their names were both Earnest. They don't want to marry any guy with just an ordinary name. In the end the two girls talk and ask the guys which one was going to be the wife of Earnest. The men finally confess. The lady's are mad in the beginning but they get over it, and they live happily ever after. .
             I thought that Algernon did a very good job with his part. The character that he plays was very funny. I don't know if that was his real accent or not but he did a very good job acting like he had one. The only two characters that I really did not like were Reverend Chasuble and Miss Prism. I thought they overacted too much. I think that they were supposed to be overacting though, to add some humor into the play.
             The pace of the play moved rather slowly in the first act. In the next act everything came together when Gwendolen and Cecily finally talked in the garden and found out their fiance's aren't really whom they said they were. I thought .
             that was the climax of the play. I actually wanted to finish the second act. The third act was very boring to me. I caught myself falling asleep at a few parts in the movie. The first intermission was much too long. I liked how they changed the set though. They would change it around in front of our face to show us how the set changed. Although I don't understand how they changed Algernon's house to library from Act I to Act III because there was only two sides to the set.


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