Oscar Wilde's brilliant play makes fun of the English upper classes with
light-hearted satire and dazzling humour. It is 1890's England and two
young gentlemen are being somewhat limited with the truth. To inject some
excitement into their lives, Mr Worthing invents a brother, Earnest, as an
excuse to leave his dull country life behind him to pursue the object of
his desire, the ravishing Gwendolyn. While across town Algernon Montecrieff
decides to take the name Earnest, when visiting Worthing's young ward
Cecily. The real fun and confusion begins when the two end up together and
their deceptions are in danger of being revealed.