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Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
at the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia

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With its marble columns and lobby posters of productions past, the Walnut Street Theatre is a venerable venue that claims, dubiously, that Jefferson and Lafayette attending its opening night performance?¹

Within the neoclassical Federal shell of the Walnut can often be found the kernel of fine scenic design, tasteful costumes, and knowledgeable subscribers. One imagines, therefore, that a sledgehammer would not be utilized in revealing itself. Unfortunately, such had been the case on my recent visits to witness the repertory’s assaults on Agatha Christie and Noel Coward. 

So it was more with a sense of duty and dread, than enthusiasm, that my band of Philadelphia Wildeans revisited the scene of those crimes to see The Importance of Being Earnest. 

Would the Wilde play be similarly executed?

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