The other evening we were delighted to have join us the author of our current production, the always youthful Mr. Oscar Wilde. He graciously took the time to review the show.

Ok. So one of the most famous, or notorious, features of Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest must surely be the quasi-mysterious offstage character of Algy’s alter ego, the permanent invalid Bunbury. This fictitious friend, always at death’s door, provides Algernon with a convenient excuse, ready on demand, to get out of town or out of responsibilities whenever he likes. All he has to do is claim that Bunbury is having a relapse, and off he goes to the country—where he can behave as badly as he likes. Ludicrous as the name may seem (and yes, potentially rather suggestive in unfortunate ways), it actually belonged to a classmate and acquaintance of Wilde’s, Henry S. Bunbury.