Students showcase talent on stage

By Lindsay Ritzmann
Staff Writer

On Oct. 27, GPAC opened their doors to all community residents and students for the play, "The Importance of Being Earnest."

A main characteristic about this play was that the audience was going to be involved throughout the whole performance. Focusing on audience participation, the setting was placed in the center of the physical stage, with the audience sitting around the performance.

"The Importance of Being Earnest" is a social comedy, satire and an intellectual farce. It is based in the 1890s in London. The conflict is that one of the characters, Jack, falls in love with a woman named Gwendolen, but Gwendolen's mother objects to this union because of Jack's inability to define his family background.

But Gwendolen's love for Jack is false, because Jack lies and says his name is Earnest. Gwendolen's love for Jack is only because his name is Earnest. But Jack's best friend Algernon discovers that Jack is leading a double life and that Algernon soon enough falls for a young lady named Cecily.

By accident, Algernon visits Jack's country house and meets Cecily and they fall completely in love, but Cecily thinks that Algernon is really Earnest also. To make matters more difficult, the two ladies find out and confront both of the young men and it turns out that Jack's real name is really Earnest.

So in the end Jack finds out the importance of being Earnest.

The actors and actresses were completely impressive with everything that they did that night. Their British accents were fantastic and the lives of the characters in the play really came alive through the actors and actresses.

The talent was fresh and unbelievable. The play on the other hand was confusing but at the same time it came together and the audience was definitely impressed.