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1. A Respectable Family

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - Jack Worthing

- Rendcomb College senior play. Directed by David Sells.

The Importance of Being Earnest is a modern classic, and it was a real treat to have a first crack at the sophisticated humour of Oscar Wilde. Actually, it's very difficult to mess up a Wilde play - the writing is so good it does all the work for you. As Jack Worthing/Earnest, I wore a splendid moustache and tried very hard to be the urbane, suave character wot Wilde wroted.

The rest of the cast were excellent, as I recall, especially Teta Hennessey as the terrifying Lady Bracknell and Cat Ledger (below - now a literary agent of some note) as Gwendoline.

I also painted the ancestral portrait that you can see hanging on the wall in the photo below!

"Jon Dixon, as Earnest, gave the polished, expert performance we have come to expect from him (he may well make his name on the stage some day)" [I wish!]