There are countless scripts we'd love to perform, but reality has its limits. Let's scratch the itch to be dramatic and explore scripts beyond our on-stage season with a theatrical book club, of sorts.

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Greek Comedies, ​Absurdist Fiction, Elizabethan Classics... options are endless for a no-obligation monthly perusal. Reserve your spot for the next session at the bottom of the page.

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Is there a title you would like to have us read? Would you like to lead a session? Contact us!

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Next Play Selection: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Reading Location: Smoke on the Water, Coleraine MN (pending confirmation).

Time: June 24, 6pm-9pm

Agenda: Assign roles. Dramatically read through the script. Discuss the play.

Order food and drinks on separate checks as you wish.

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​SYNOPSIS (stageagent.com): Oscar Wilde’s brilliantly clever comedic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, was once called by critic W.H. Auden, “the only pure verbal opera in English.” Earnest tells the story of two young gentlemen in London, who each live a double-life, creating elaborate deceptions to find some balance in their lives. John Worthing escapes the burdens of responsibility to have an exciting life in the city, pretending to be his fictitious younger brother Ernest. Algernon Moncrieff, meanwhile, has invented a convenient invalid, Bunbury, whom he uses as an excuse to gallivant off to the country whenever he pleases. When John falls in love with Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolen, he is determined to come clean, but when Gwendolen reveals she can only love a man named Ernest, it somewhat complicates things. When Algernon discovers John’s secret and decides to visit John’s pretty little ward in the country, posing as the debauched “Ernest,” the situation gets entirely more complicated! Hijinks ensue, and the two gentlemen and their ladies are in for more than they ever anticipated when formidable Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen’s mother, begins sleuthing around to uncover the far-fetched truth. Oscar Wilde's brilliant comedy captures with wit and charm the absurdity and delight of the Victorian "age of surfaces" (as Lady Bracknell calls it,) while capturing the struggle of four passionate lovers trying to conform to expectations and, in the most roundabout and delightfully funny way possible, love who they wish and live how they want.

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Total cast: 9

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