Every year, Garfield’s Drama Club’s finest are led by their president in putting on the winter show. It is tradition for this show to be a comedy and to be completely student-run. This year, Drama Club president and senior Molly Sharpe and vice-president and senior. Francis Lin co-direct Oscar Wilde’s comedic classic The Importance of Being Earnest.

Written in 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest is a wacky story about love and double lives. The protagonist, Jack Worthing (played by junior Josh Davids), is a respectable young man who leads a double life – -one in London, and the other at a country estate. In London, he is known as Ernest and is in love with his best friend Algernon’s (played by senior Nick Thompson) cousin Gwendolen (played by senior Tory Sheffield). At the country estate, he is known as Jack and is the guardian of Cecily Cardew (played by senior Celia Gurney) who is the love interest of Algernon and granddaughter of the late Thomas Cardew who dies before the play begins.

Throughout the play, both Jack and Algernon get tangled up in a “who’s who?” web of lies as they both claim the identity of Ernest, both of whom Gwendolen and Cecily are in love with. The two girls become very attached to their different versions of Ernest and insist that the name “inspires absolute confidence.”

This particular production is promising due to casting alone. The four leads, Davids, Thompson, Sheffield, and Gurney, are all Dramatic Paws veterans and have an uncanny reputation for being hilarious. Davis is currently one of the Drama Club’s vice-presidents and has appeared in numerous plays on the Garfield stage, the most recent being Romeo & Juliet in which he played Benvolio. Thompson was in Grease his freshman year, Done to Death last year, and played Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet earlier this year. Sheffield is currently in the Children’s Show, The Phantom Tollbooth, playing this week. Gurney was one of Drama Club’s VPs last year and was also in Romeo & Juliet this year. Also in the show are drama club/department regulars Eli Higham, Lucie Saether, Andrew Brown, Melissa Carter, and Hannah Walhout.

Molly Sharpe and Francis Lin, having participated in every show at GHS that they could get their hands on, are sure to deliver two hours of hilarity to all of those fortunate enough to get a ticket.

The Importance of Being Earnest shows February 4 – 6, and 11 – 13 in the Quincy Jones Performance Center.