It also had the ugliest cover art I could find. I thought: there’s only one version of the play because the language is easy to understand, they don’t need an expensive edition with a ton of notes and this one’s go decent binding, good paper quality, and plenty of space on the pages to write stuff. I wanted to put hard copy of the script in the actors’ hands as soon as possible, so I gave them the best cheap edition I could find. Notes from the Director Something Sensational to read in the train In the morning room of Jack’s country house, revelations, confessions, engagements, and earnest trivialities ensue.Gwendolen and Cecily meet in the garden, under equally surprising circumstances.

Algernon and Jack meet in the garden, under surprising circumstances.In the garden of Jack’s country house, his young ward, Cecily Cardew, and her governess, Miss Prism, discuss the need to reform Jack’s wayward brother Ernest.Lady Bracknell is alarmed about Jack’s unknown parentage. Lady Bracknell interviews Jack to ascertain his eligibility as a suitor to her daughter.Algernon tells Jack about “Bunburying,” a ruse he invented for escaping tedious social functions in London.Algernon is quite surprised to discover that his friend’s name is not actually Ernest, but Jack.At his flat in London, Algernon Moncrieff prepares for the arrival of his aunt, Lady Augusta Bracknell, and her daughter, Gwendolen Fairfax.Miss Laetitia Prism, a governess and blossoming novelist, makes an error in a cloakroom at London’s Victoria Station.Discover More Stuff that Happens Stuff that happens before the play

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