The Watch City Players present genderqueer Importance of Being Earnest!

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As you may or may not know, the Watch City Players have a summer show going up, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. It's going up Saturday, July 26th at 7pm in an outdoor performance at the North entrance of Prospect Hill Park, at 314 Totten Pond Road in Waltham, MA.

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
Gwen 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!

Comments

[offside7.livejournal.com]

I've really enjoyed the movie in the past, wish I could go!

[laura47.livejournal.com]

only one performance, and i'm out of town? SO SAD. my favorite play and some of my favorite people. :-(

[lightgamer.livejournal.com]

In the interest of accuracy, my character is actually *Gregory* Fairfax. Thank you so much for promoting the show!

[nennivian.livejournal.com]

Yay for getting the word out!
Also, in the interest of having people show up at the right place, it should be noted that last-minute red tape has resulted in us moving our venue. We do not have a definite location yet, but it will likely be a park space in Cambridge instead. Sorry for the last-minute change!