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"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde
A 1985 TV broadcast featuring the formidable and hilarious Lady Bracknell by Dame Wendy Hiller.
link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest":
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=749CF199F94D9B7F
Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff
Ann Thornton ... Cecily Cardew
Gabrielle Drake ... Gwendolen Fairfax
Sydney Arnold ... Merriman
Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP
Rosamund Greenwood ... Miss Prism
Henry Moxon ... Rev Canon Chasuble
Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV)
This production was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981.
The actor (and manager) Geroge Alexander first presented this play with a one act curtain raiser by Langdon Mitchell. Wilde had submitted a four-act play, and was told to cut it down to three acts. He complied and most of the cutting involved folding the second and third acts into one--the second act as exits today.
Wilde's son Vyvyan reconstructed the original 4-act version in 1957, (it survived in a German translation and from copies of Wilde's early drafts--and offered many more opportunities for the actors to eat on stage).
Some excellent stuff got cut! here's a bit:
Jack: Believe me, dear Cecily, I am acting for the best.
Cecily: People always say that when they do thier worst.
Jack: Child! Who taught you such a pessimistic idea?
Cecily: No one; if I had been taught it, I wouldn't believe it.
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