The importance of Being Earnest Part Deux:
​Thoroughly Stupid Things

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​THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST PART DEUX:  
THOROUGHLY STUPID THINGS – 2008 – STAGE PLAY
In this critically acclaimed sequel to Oscar Wilde's ​The Importance of Being Earnest, Gwendolen and Cecily go undercover as attorneys Ernest and Ernest to find out why Jack and Algernon spend so much time at the local men's club. When they meet alluring cabaret singer Bibi LaFlam and a menacing French Inspector, the ladies get more than they bargain for in this thoroughly "Wilde" comedy.  Winner of the 2008 Best Playwrighting Award at the New York International Fringe Festival.

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HISTORY:
  • ​June 2005
Lilla Wallace Juilliard Playwrights Fellowship Finalist
  • September 2007
Finalist - The Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre
  • January 2008
Whirled Peas Productions  @ Manhattan Theatre Source
Directed by Megan Demarest
  • May 2008
Callan Theatre – Salem, Massachusetts
Directed by Meghan Demarest.
  • August  2008
New York International Fringe Festival
Directed by Megan Demarest
Excellence in Playwriting Award      
  • February 2009
Vagabond Theatre Ensemble – A special presentation
  • June 2009
Commercial Run Option
Jeremy Handelman - Off-The Leash Productions



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Directed by
Megan Demarest

WRITTEN BY
​Montserrat MEndEZ

STARRING:
Jennifer Avery Semrick*,
Amy Forney, Darrell Glasgow*,  Stephen Laferriere*,  Justin McKenna, Stephanie Lovell, Synge Maher, John Buxton, Dean Jones.


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REVIEWS:
“A Comic Masterwork… A veritable monsoon of precisely executed comedy demonstrated by a most-polished cast.  Each actor superbly draws every drop of amusement from Mendez’s script, with its matchless gift for literary allusion, I hardly expected thoroughly stupid to be so bright.” 
Leonard Jacobs- Backstage
  
“The ending of the play, which nods a midsummer night’s dream, even has a touch of somber note – marking the reality of the world which confounds us. Making such a touching and poignant ending was a brave and successful choice, hilarious, and ridiculous evening. Now that’s what theatre is!” 
Andrew Bellware – Braidwood Films
 
“Rapid-fire writing replete with riotous wordplay, a fun, clever night of theatre.”  Nytheatre.com
 
“**** (four stars) Montserrat Mendez’s follow-up to Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is the rare sequel that doesn’t disappoint. The upper classes remain frivolous and atwitter as Mendez picks up Wilde’s story.  The endearing Gwendolen (Emma Gordon) and Cecily (Amy Forney) suspect their husbands are having affairs – so, as any good wife would do, they disguise themselves as men and spy on their spouses at a gentlemen’s club, slipping in and out of their false identities to choruses of laughter from the audience. Mendez’s script weaves a lattice of clover wordplay, and has great fun blowing up and rebuilding the fourth wall. Barely pausing to inhale, the fine cast reels off Mendez’s verbiage with aplomb, in accents whose tongue-in-cheek snootiness is perfectly matched by the wry smile that Mendez flashes at Wilde.” Ashley Hoffman – Time Out
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