Jack Worthing leads a double life: one as Jack Worthing, a responsible member of his community and one as his black-sheep-brother Ernest who is forever getting into trouble. Algernon, Ernest’s best friend, visits his aunt with Ernest and finds out about the double identity by accident – approving of it, as he has one too. […]
1979 – “Midsummer Mink” by Peter Coke
Brigadier Raynes runs his charity campaigns with military expertise, but unfortunately little monetary success. When Nan receives a mink coat by a crook on the run it sparks an idea. Turning into modern Robin Hoods, Rayne and his cohorts start a system for stolen furs, giving all profits to charity – but the operations become […]
1978 – “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion is an ‘idea’-play where the character is made the servant of wit. But the stature of this play is based on something far more solid than just brilliance of wit and dialogue. Language was sacred to Shaw because he saw it as the source of man’s identity. The unconcious irony of this play is […]