The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) allotment 5 of 11

The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) allotment 5 of 11 On YouTube.

a near duplicate upload of this video is here: www.youtube.com "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": www.youtube.com Ann Thornton ... Cecily Cardew Rosamund Greenwood ... Miss Prism Henry Moxon ... Rev Canon Chasuble Sydney Arnold ... Merriman Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) This production was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981. On the opening night of this play the actor who created the role of Merriman recalled "My first speech, 'Mr. Ernest Worthing hs just driven over from the station. He has brought his luggage with him,' was recieved with the loudest and most sustained laugh that I have ever experienced, culminating in a round of applause; and as I came off Wilde said to me, 'I'm glad you got that laugh. It shows they have followed the plot.'" This tightly constructed and intricately crafted play is of the sort that some commentators dismissively call a "pièce bien faite", but Wilde's doesn't suffer from any obvious or contrived formula. He plotting in very logical and convincing, but much of it moves with surprises--an example of such is the one described above, utilizing a very minor character to move the plot along, thus artfully ...

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