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Play: The Importance of Being Earnest
Venue: Pridemore Playhouse, Radford
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Organizations: Radford University College of Visual & Performing Arts
Date: Saturday, April 15, 2017
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost:
General Admission: $10.00 RU Faculty/Staff: $6.00 Senior Discount (55+): $6.00 Group rates (10+): $6.00 RU Student w/ID: Free

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Description:
The Radford University College of Visual & performing Arts presents Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest" on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 through Sunday, April 16, 2017 at the Pridemore Playhouse.

Performances:
• Tuesday, April 11, 2017: 7:30 pm
• Thursday, April 13, 2017: 7:30 pm
• Friday, April 14, 2017: 7:30 pm
• Saturday, April 15, 2017: 7:30 pm
• Sunday, April 16, 2017: 2:00 pm

Gwendolyn is in love with a man named Ernest, but she’s never met him. Cecily writes love letters to a man named Ernest that she’s never met. Mr. Worthing is Ernest in town and Jack in the country… or is it John Well, in the words of that “Lord of Language” Oscar Wilde, the truth is rarely pure and never simple. But sorting it out is sure to be great fun.

With gorgeous period costumes and lavish, Aesthetic Movement-inspired scenery, this production features not one, but two guest artists, both alumnae of Radford University. Kathleen Harshberger ‘80 portrays the overbearing society maven Lady Bracknell and her daughter, Gwendolen is being played by Alicia Sable ‘01. Well known to Radford University Theatre audiences, Harshberger has played several roles during and since her time as a student including a comic turn in last season’s “Anything Goes.”

Sable returns to the Pridemore Playhouse where she last appeared in “The Boyfriend” her senior year. A native of Giles County, Alicia took off for New York after graduation where she sang and danced on Broadway. She also played a major role in Amazon Prime’s “Alpha House” alongside John Goodman.

The play first premiered in 1895 and remains one of the most-produced plays in the English-speaking theatre. Oscar Wilde himself described the philosophy of the play as one that treats “the trivial things of life seriously, and the serious things with sincere and studied triviality.”

Tickets are $10.00 for general admission, $6.00 for Radford University Faculty/Staff, as well as for seniors and groups (10+). Radford University students are free with a student ID. Tickets are available online or by visit the Porterfield Box Office. You may visit the box office in person from noon to 6 pm beginning the week before opening, or one hour before start of each performance.

To purchase tickets online, visit: http://rutheatretickets.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event_listings.asp.

For more information, visit: https://www.radford.edu/content/cvpa/home/performance-season/cvpa-calendar.html or https://www.facebook.com/RadfordArts/ or call 540-831-5265.