BRILLIANT COMEDY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 66, 11 December 1930, Page 3

BRILLIANT COMEDY

Repertory Society Wonderful success is being met with by the National Repertory Theatre /society in its production of Oscar Wilde s comedy, “The Importance of Being Earnest, which is to be performed every evening Ulis week at the Y.W.C.A. Hall, Boulcot Street. The show is an amazingly good one, and none of "Wilde’s extraordinary wit, which is more of a barrage than stray sniping, is without its effect on the audience. One can observe with safety that "The Importance of Being Earnest" is a perverse study in laughter that perhaps noone could equal at the present time. Almost every line is a jesting one, twisted to conform with Wilde’s attitude —curious or otherwise —to tlie world around him. Superficially crisp and glistening, but most of the time, it seems, with jokes,in involution, Wilde produces laughter with gags transformed, the 1 signposts of his philosophy. . .. The pin vers, who are, perhaps, the most talented band the society has ever put ou. a stage together, include Miss Beryl Earle, Miss -Hazel Wells, Miss A. Louise Hail, Mr. Barton Ginger, and others. It is a play that no one should miss.