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    Date: 2/14/97
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SLU THEATRE PRESENTS "THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST"
     HAMMOND -- "Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations." So says Oscar
Wilde in his famous social satire, "The Importance of Being Earnest." The Southeastern Louisiana
University Theatre will present the stage classic March 11-15 at Vonnie Borden Theatre.
     "Consider this your personal invitation to join us for our third production of the 1996-97
season," said director Kay Files, a member of the SLU communication and theatre department.
Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. Tickets -- $5 general admission and $3 senior citizens, non-SLU students
and SLU faculty and staff -- will be available at the door and at the theatre box office in D Vickers
Hall lobby one week before opening. SLU students are admitted free with their university I.D.
     Files said Wilde's comedy of manners rocked Victorian England and continues to delight
audiences everywhere. Rebecca Boyles, a member of the communication and theatre faculty, will
costume the cast in elegant Edwardian dress, Files said, and set design and lighting will be by faculty
member Steve Schepker. 
     Cast members, including guest actor Blair Zeigler of New Orleans, are Todd Abrams,
Ashleigh Gray, Robert Stratton, Ericka Dunn and Michelle Maranto of Baton Rouge; Daniel Brown
and Indelethio of Hammond; Jason Buuck of Slidell; Heather Gallaty of Covington; Michelle Lane of
Ponchatoula, and Cherie Maurer of Independence.
     "The Importance of Being Earnest" features Algernon and Jack, two debonair London
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bachelors who use their imaginary friends to get excused from tedious social obligations and tight
situations with young ladies. Miss Cecily Cardew and the Hon. Gwendolyn Fairfax are two beautiful
young Victorian ladies who think they have pledged their undying love to the same man. The cast also
includes the forgetful governess Miss Prism, who once mislaid her employer's baby in Victoria Station;
her beau the Rev. Dr. Chasuble, and, most unforgettable of all, Lady Bracknell, Gwendolyn's
imperious mother.
     "The Importance of Being Earnest" will be part of the new Southeastern Victorian Age
Celebration, a multi-departmental project sponsored by the SLU Cultural Resource Management
program.
     For additional information, call the SLU communication and theatre department at 549-2105.
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