Oscar Wilde. Fairy Tales

A quick play that was silly and enjoyable, about two women who believe they're engaged to the same man, who is named Ernest, and whom neither would love if he had a different name. (LOL that's not a thing, but sure! We'll go with it!) Except Ernest is two people, neither of whom are actually named Ernest, and also Ernest is fictitious in this world.

Hijinks and trickery are not especially my favorite, but the wit of the dialogue was clever enough that I'll give it a pass. I laughed out loud a few times. I listened to the cast audio, and it was great fun. (Though it feels a little bit like cheating for the purposes of reading Wilde!) The women in particular were quite fun as they passive-aggressively had tea together.

9-8-20 Edit: In the last few weeks during the pandemic, Matt and I have started working our way at random through some of the old James Bond movies. They're highly entertaining, what with their ridiculous fight scenes, terrible one-liners and characters whose job is to kill people with their teeth (REALLY!). Anyway, yesterday we started Moonraker, and one of the baddies misquotes an Earnest line (“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness”), and I had to pause and laugh because it's amazing when your cultural references happen to align so perfectly.