The Importance of Being Earnest
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Check out the National Theatre’s ‘THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST’ (now online) its destined to a camp classic
The Importance of Being Earnest (A Trivial Comedy for Serious People) was Oscar Wilde‘s final play, and it premiered in 1895, literally weeks before he was imprisoned for being a homosexual. The irony is that the play wasn’t part of the prosecution’s evidence, yet over the years its queer subtext has been exploited to make…
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The sublime Brian Bedford as Lady Bracknell is now streaming online
Drag was not invented by Ru Paul as he would love us to believe. He simply catapulted into an orbit of excess that doesn’t bother trying to kid us into believing that a man has transformed into a woman. Drag and cross-dressing have their roots way back to Shakespeare’s time when all the female…
