This Saturday's genderqueer Importance of Being Earnest in CAMBRIDGE
This is a reminder about the Watch City Players have a summer show going up, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
THE LOCATION HAS CHANGED, HOWEVER. It's going up Saturday, July 26th at 7pm in an outdoor performance at Clement G. Morgan Park in Cambridge, MA.
To repeat my pitch from before:
"This show is fun and funny, but what really makes it special is that it's all about gender and gender variation. Some characters are gender-flipped, some are reinterpreted as trans or nonbinary; even the whole idea of Earnest is based around the lead characters exploring their own gender identities outside of the ones assigned to them. It's an interesting and fun queering of the text."
The cast is as follows:
Jaclyn Worthing / Ernest Worthing: Frances Kimpel
Algernon Moncrieff: Charlotte Oswald
Gregory Bracknell: Matt Kamm
Cecil Cardew: Eboracum Richter-Dahl
Lady Bracknell: April Farmer
Miss Prism: Jonathan Kindness
Dr. Chasuble: Sparrow Rubin
Lane/Merriman: Stephanie Karol
Directed by Lenny Somervell
It's free and in the park, so I wanted to organize a big potluck dinner before the show. I'd like to meet up in the park around 5:30 and hang out and have a picnic until the performance. Feel free to bring anyone you think might enjoy it! I'm planning on bringing chicken marbella. :-)
Let me know if you can make it! Also tell me what you'd like to bring, or I can suggest something if you need an idea.
This should be a lot of fun, so I hope to see you there!"