The Importance of Being Earnest

In a late-Victorian London bursting with colour, Jack Worthing leads a double life: in the country he is the upright guardian of Cecily Cardew, but in town he goes by Ernest. His friend Algernon Moncrieff has his own escape route, an invented invalid named Bunbury, whose relapses call him away whenever duty threatens. When Jack proposes to Algernon's cousin Gwendolen, her formidable mother, Lady Bracknell, demands to know where he came from, and Algernon slips off to the country to pose as Ernest.