THEATRE REVIEW: The air’s a tad thin in this production of Oscar Wilde’s work.
Wendy Zavaleta as Lady Bracknell, Maddie Scanlan as Gwendolen, and Justin Heller as Jack in City Theatre’sSome of the best playwrights and composers require a specific skill set from actors who dare perform their works.
For those venturing into Oscar Wilde’s literary realm of Victorian entitlement and excess – as the City Theatre ensemble does with its current production of his 1895 play– actors must bring more than just a proper high-society British accent to establish place and privilege. Their performances and production need air.
The City Theatre has put together an earnest and enjoyable production of this play. But while Karen Sneed’s experience as director, dramaturg, and performer are evident , her expertise with HVAC is lacking. The air in this staging of The Importance of Being Earnest is a tad too thin. All this provides plenty of comedic fodder and opportunity for Wilde to share his wry observations about privilege, arrogance, and repressive values, which are brilliantly personified in his creation of Lady Bracknell , Algernon’s monstrously matronly aunt and the mother of Jack’s love interest.
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