OSCAR WILDE’S CLASSIC COMEDY IS REIMAGINED AS A WHISTLESTOP TWO-HANDER
Outdoor theatre company Slapstick Picnic will make their debut at the Town Gardens Bowl, with Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy, The Importance Of Being Earnest. Ripping up the recipe book and dishing out a hectic, two-actor production of this masterpiece, audiences will be invited to tuck into a picnic and join in the silliness!
Prepare to witness the impossible – the entirety of Oscar Wilde’s classic play of manners, affairs and handbags being performed by just two rather dashing entertainers with a little help from their hapless Stage Manager. They’ve no time for the twee tea-time titters – they want you guffawing with your gran and spitting out your sauvignon on your sister.
Director, Nel Crouch, said, “When it comes to enjoying the great British summer, you can’t beat basking in the evening sun, sipping an ice-cold drink, tucking into a delicious picnic and watching this classic Wilde comedy with a slapstick twist. Of course it could rain, which would shatter that lovely image… but that’s all part of the fun isn’t it!”
Slapstick Picnic comes to you from the mad minds that created the award-winning touring company, The HandleBards. The company shares actors and creatives with The HandleBards including theatre director Nel Crouch (RSC, Young Vic) and designer Connie Watson (New Old Friends) using their experience of outdoor theatre and adapting Shakespeare to produce this classic tale with an untraditional twist.
