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Trivial pursuit, Serious business, The importance of being Ridiculus, More 
- Trivial pursuit
It's difficult to put on an awful performance of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest .
- Serious business
Playwright and director Moisés Kaufman likes to say that Oscar Wilde was the first performance artist.
- The importance of being Ridiculus
You wouldn’t think that an effective way into the heart of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest would be to play down the comedy’s slapstick farce, stentorian wit, fast pacing, or romantic heterosexuality.
- A Good Woman
The past catches up with an ageing seductress in Mike Barker’s flaccid version of Lady Windermere’s Fan , Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of manners.
- No alibi needed
Earnest also boasts one hell of a big, imperious foil of British womanhood.
- Where are the movies on the war in Iraq?
Oscar Wilde might have called 9/11 “the day we dare not speak its name.” He would have been correct, at least, that we dared not speak its name to make a buck — until now.
- Power play(1)
At this time of renewed political idealism in the country, director Judith Swift has labeled the London setting of An Ideal Husband , at the Gamm through December 7, as "inspired by the 19th century, set in the 20th century, reflected in the 21st century."
- The war games
The Cry of the Reed seems torn from some particularly gruesome headlines: kidnapping, beheading, such stuff as Daniel Pearl’s final dreams were made on.
- Not about heroes
Guns and cocoa butter are the subjects of George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 Arms and the Man , the first of the great Irish contrarian’s “Plays Pleasant.”
- Dead ringers
The Doublemint Twins in The Parent Trap would not be out of place on Berkshires stages this week.
- Music and fashion
Since it turns out that the Evil Empire actually does suck this year, let’s start this summer preview off with Joe Boyd’s famous Faustian bargain
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