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Title: A good cast wasted.
Review: Every one of the actors and actresses is an extremely talented person, and could have been good in a different production of the play. It was obvious that the director didn't understand the play, and was taking a totally wrongheaded approach to it."Ernest" is a drawing room comedy. Hacking up the different scenes--moving from the club to Lady Bracknell's townhouse or from the country house to the church--destroys that. The tatoo parlor scene was entirely gratuitous. Showing Canon Chasibule's drawings was a total misreading of the character. Making Algy the older of the guys was wrong; if Wilde had wanted it that way, he would have WRITTEN it that way. And having Algy and Ernest getting into a physical struggle over the muffins was just wrong, wrong, WRONG--it violated the whole spirit of the play, which is the use of WORDS and LANGUAGE.I just hope that some day the same cast gets together to do this again--under a director who knows what he is doing.
