By Katherine Buerke ’26, staff writer
Wig and Buckle Theater Company will be closing off its 90th season with Oscar Wilde’s classic play, “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
The play is a social satire that follows English gentlemen Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, using linguistic humor and outlandish scenarios to poke fun at the traditional customs and behaviors of the English upper class.
It’s “two entitled rich boys finding out telling the truth can be good… sometimes,” Cory Huber, a first-year music production major, said. Huber plays the role of Jack Worthing in the play.
Director Griffin Reppert, a sophomore digital communications and interaction design major with a minor in creative writing, hopes that audiences will appreciate the social commentary the play provides.
“It is so relevant, especially in our current political climate,” Reppert said. “A play that plays with sexuality in such a fun and open way is inherently so political. It’s a play about classism and how the upper class are just archetypes of our wildest dreams. I think it’s the only play in the world that allows the people who watch it to move up a class.”
The play is the last in an emotionally-charged season, following drama “Radium Girls,” directed by senior Abriana Ferrari, and musical “Alice by Heart,” directed by junior Scarlet Laity.
“It’s a breath of fresh air,” Roman Diaz, a first-year music education major with a musical theater minor who plays Algernon, said. “Just being able to goof off, improv and put on a great show is liberating.”.
Performances are Friday, March 20, and Saturday, March 21, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, March 22, at 2 p.m. in Leedy Theater.
Tickets are free for LVC students and can be reserved here: wigandbuckle.booktix.com.
