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Do You Have Your Tickets for Earnest?
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The Importance of Being Earnest opens its run at The Lancaster Playhouse soon.
Performances are Friday April 28 at 7pm and April 29 at 2pm & 7pm.
The Box Office
is open Monday thru Saturday from 10am to 5pm. Call 740-974-6648 for information and tickets. OR......
TLP now has online ticketing. Click here to order your tickets. You can also access online ticketing at The Lancaster Playhouse website. We hope you are as excited as we are for this added opportunity.
Evening performance tickets are selling at a good pace but there are still seats available. At least for now. Don't miss out on an evening with Oscar Wilde's brilliant zingers and commentaries on society. This play was first performed in 1895 but many thoughts and ideas are still relevant to today. Come and see what you think.
There will be some reserved seating available at each performance as well as general admission and student tickets.
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What the heck is "Bunburrying?"
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Eating dessert before dinner
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Avoiding one's duties and responsibilities
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Laughing at inopportune moments
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Oops... Forgive our error
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In our last publication we mistakenly referenced the local Garret Players as the "Garrett" Players. Spell check didn't catch the error but one of our readers did. We would rather be right than be president....of anything!
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Cast takes on Oscar Wilde
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The Importance of Being Earnest Cast members were given a list of over 70 Oscar Wilde quotations and asked to pick one and comment on it. Please enjoy their personal take on Wilde.
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
This quote spoke to me the most out of all of them because I'm always trying to stay true to who I am. I always want to do something different and be something different. If this world is filled with people all the same then it wouldn't be fun. To be able to be yourself is the best skill anyone can have.
Abby Reeves...(Cecily)
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"Either the wallpaper goes or I go."
This telling quote says so much about Wilde. First of all, that his sense of humor followed him through his whole life, even to the grave, and, secondly, that he was planning to keep his wallpaper.
Alex Caperton...(Algernon)
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"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
I enjoy this quotation because it's hilarious in current context. I think Mr. Wilde would appreciate the irony.
Alex Nestor...(Merriman)
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"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
People I find appealing are charming and certainly make me hope for another time with them. If bad, the experience is quickly tedious and a way-too-long, I'm out of here, good bye politely for me!
Bryon Moornan...(Jack)
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“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
A good friend told me, "Elevate your thinking and it will elevate your life". If I want to elevate my thinking, I have to fill my knowledge with those things that uplift me and benefit me. If I fill myself with trash, then trash will come out; however, if I am filling my knowledge and my life with that which is good, then the good will come out. This principle is found in Luke 6:45 - ...for of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Another verse states,
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things -
Philippians 4:8
Paul Russell...(Lane)
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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
Being a teacher both on and off stage I do value education. However, I see within my students and today's society that some of the most important things in life cannot be taught. They have to be experienced. Through those experiences one can learn a great deal more than being in a classroom eight hours of the day.
Angela Russell...(Miss Prism)
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all"
This quote means a lot to me because it inspired me to get outside of my comfort shell and do something that I wanted to do. You look around and most people are living their lives by paying bills, raising a family, and all the things you need to survive that you do exactly the same every single day.
You're not really living until you're doing what you love to do and doing things you never thought you would try. Sometimes you just need to step outside of the lines of what you're used to and try something new or do what you love to do. Live like there is no tomorrow (safely).
Gracie Miller..,(Gwendolen)
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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde had a clever wit, and often used sarcasm and irony to communicate a barbed message. In this case I believe he really hit the nail on the head. Because of my personal relationship with Christ, I am aware that Jesus said, "Love your enemies and do good to those who persecute you." He also said, "If you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you." And the apostle Paul quoted the book of Proverbs saying, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Treating your enemies so kindly and graciously, of course, is very difficult for us to put into practice. Oscar Wilde's words, however, sum up the end result quite succinctly. Repaying evil with good will certainly cause your enemy annoyance to say the least!
Fred Norris...(Chasuble)
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“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
Out of all of Oscar Wilde’s brilliant one-liners, this one is by far my favorite. It is often times all too easy to slip on a mask and be someone else. Indeed, that’s what I, as an actress, am tasked with in both professional productions and in life – to slip into the persona, the voice, the style, the look of someone else, for the entertainment (and all too often, amusement) of others. “Be more charming, smile more, speak softly.” So, as an actress, I try on roles like costumes, slipping in and out of personalities with ease. But at the end of the day, those roles have already been filled. At the end of the day, the world needs someone to play Keely Pearce. And the truth is the only one who can be me…is me. After all: “everyone else is already taken.”
Keely Pearce...(Lady Bracknell)
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TLP's 2017-2018 Season
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