Press Release "The Importance of Being Earnest"

Press Release for The Importance of Being Earnest.

Forest City, IA - Looking for a romantic show for your Valentine’s Day? Waldorf College Theatre presents Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. The show will run 7:30pm, Tuesday, February 10 through Saturday, February 14. Director and assistant professor of theatre Jeremy Fiebig says “This is a perfect Valentine’s Day play that holds up even a hundred years later. I think audiences will have a great time laughing out loud at the silliness of love.”
This “trivial comedy for serious people” is set in Victorian England. It is a work of irony that criticizes the British upper-class society and their propriety. What should be a simple tale of falling in love and living happily-ever-after is skewed by identity confusion and meddling relatives. Will our lovers ever be together? And who is this “Ernest” character that everyone is so interested in? Manners and class go out the window as these characters try to discover the true importance of being earnest.
Tickets for The Importance of Being Earnest are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and students, and $2 for Waldorf students. Tickets can be ordered on Waldorf’s website at www.waldorf.edu/finearts/theatre/ or by e-mailing theatre@waldorf.edu. Reserve tickets by calling 585-8288.








Cast:
John Worthing – Immanuel Elliott
- A senior Theatre Arts Major from Elizabethton, TN.

Algernon Moncrieff – John Crane
- A junior English Literature Major from Ely, MN.

Rev. Canon Chausible – Peter Teigen
- A junior Business Major from Fort Worth, TX.

Merriman, a butler – Sam Kohner
- A sophomore Business, Finance and Banking Major from Winona, MN.

Lane, a manservant – Braden Falline
- A freshman History Major from Everly, IA.

Lady Augusta Bracknell – Andrew Harrison
- A freshman Theatre Arts Major from Waseca, MN.

Gwendolen Fairfax – Elena Henriksen
- A sophomore Psychology/Dramaturgy Double Major from Lake Park, IA.

Cecily Cardew – Jessica Schiermeister
- A sophomore Theatre Arts Major from Van Horne, IA.

Miss Prism, a governess – Marissa Hopper
- A sophomore Theatre Arts Major from Keystone, IA.

Assistant Director/Stage Manager - Kylea Dieken
- A sophomore English Major from Clear Lake, IA.

Assistant Stage Manager – Steven Van Overbeke
- A Senior Theatre Arts/Business Management Double Major from Forest City, IA.

Assistant Stage Manager – Noel Priester
- A Junior Creative Writing Major from Harvard, IL.