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Entertainment^ Leisure
Theatre review
Delightful moments but pace slows ‘Ernest’
Jolly laugh
Donal Carrier as Jack, left and Graham Abbey as Algernon,
discuss the trivialities of their leisurely life during the Avon
theatre’s production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of
Being Ernest.
By Janice Becker
Citizen staff
It was one of those plays which
had absolutely delightful moments,
but they seemed too slow in coming.
The Avon Theatre’s production of
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of
Being Ernest, starred Graham Abbey
as Algernon and Donald Carrier as
Jack, two young men of leisure who
pride themselves on being able to
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weasel their way out of
uncomfortable responsibilities by
using false names.
While the first act was necessary
as it explained the double lives both
men led and their preference for
pleasures, it seemed to drag.
A contradiction however, was that
the two lead characters seemed to
race through their lines, belying the
fact that ihey were men of
considerable comfort and wealth
with really nothing better to do with
their time.
In spite of the slow first act, the
remainder of the play was filled with
chuckles as the deceptions of both
men are discovered. Their
prospective fiancees believe they are
to wed the same man as the men
have each used the same false
monicker.
They are soon to discover how that
assumed name may have gotten
them into a fix and also raised the
question of their ladies’ true
affections.
The hilarity peaks with the
performance of Abbey as he interacts
with his young betrothed Claire
Jullien as Cecily.
Having asked for her hand after a
mere two hours of acquaintance, he
is befuddled and quizzical- as he
listens to Cecily rave about her
imagined love affair with a man she
had never met. She is angry at
Algernon, who is pretending to be
that man, for having broken up with
her though only in her imagination.
He falls into her daydream
ramblings, asking whether he had
apologized properly, though the pair
had never met
Jullien is excellent as young
Cecily, a naive girl secluded in a
country manor, having only her
dreams and a governess, to keep her
entertained.
Her facial expressions as she
displayed her disgust at a particular
name brought roars from the
obviously-enthralled audience.
Though it is a shame to see an
actress such as Patricia Collins in
limited roles such as Lady
Brancaster (or Mme. Pernelle in
Tartuffe), where she portrays the
older, angry, uptight, stem, aunt or
mother, she fills the role
exceptionally well.7
She strikes fear into the junior
family members, demanding respect
from them. She gets that from the
audience.
Though the three-hour production
seemed lengthy, the misadventures
of the third and fourth acts were
worth the wait. The Importance of
Being Ernest runs at the Avon
Theatre through Nov. 4.
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The evening will begin with a
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