Genderqueer "Importance of Being Earnest" this Saturday in Clement G. Morgan Park!

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

The Watch City Players have a summer show going up, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

It's going up Saturday, July 26th at 7pm in an outdoor performance at Clement G. Morgan Park at 60 Columbia St. in Cambridge, MA. Admission is free but donations are gladly accepted.

This show is fun and funny, but what really makes it special is that it's all about gender and gender variation. Some characters are gender-flipped, some are reinterpreted as trans or nonbinary; even the whole idea of Earnest is based around the lead characters exploring their own gender identities outside of the ones assigned to them. It's an interesting and fun queering of the text.

The cast is as follows:

Jaclyn Worthing / Ernest Worthing: Frances Kimpel
Algernon Moncrieff: Charlotte Oswald
Gregory Bracknell: Matt Kamm
Cecil Cardew: Eboracum Richter-Dahl
Lady Bracknell: April Farmer
Miss Prism: Jonathan Kindness
Dr. Chasuble: Sparrow Rubin
Lane/Merriman: Stephanie Karol

Directed by Lenny Somervell

Comments

[ron_newman]

Could you please edit this post to include the location of this event? Thanks.

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

Done!

[aquaflame16.livejournal.com]

This looks cool!
Can you tell me a bit about the logistics of this performance? Like is this a "bring folding chairs" sort of thing? And do you know about how long the show runs? Thanks!

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

Sure thing! It's a bring your own picnic blanket and chairs thing. It should run about an hour and forty-five minutes all told.

[rose_garden.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed the show!