#The Importance of Being Earnest

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil,

continuing on the closed captions hell:

Amazon insists Crowley calls Aziraphale "Lady Brackney" in the pub scene, but I googled around and think he actually made a Lady Bracknell reference, cause Britannica says "[she] is the embodiment of conventional upper-class Victorian respectability". Would you confirm that?

Thanks in advance if you ever answer this ✨

Yes. That's the only line in the show that David improvised, too. I believe every take he'd order a sherry for Aziraphale with a different request (in the script I thought he'd be too far away to hear so I hadn't written a line). I love that he calls Aziraphale "Lady Bracknell" for all sorts of reasons.

[stars-bean]

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) dir. Oliver Parker

[lightsinthemist]

I'm afraid that I will never get over the sheer genius of translating 'The Importance of Being Earnest' to Czech as 'Jak je důležité míti Filipa'

[lesmiserabelles]

trailer for the importance of being earnest at the national theatre

[punkitt-is-here]

i see you posted about The Importance Of Being Earnest. I fucking love The Importance Of Being Earnest. Here as a gift is the drawing I made for a humanities assignment that got me 100% for your viewing pleasure *SPOILERS FOR THE PLAY*

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[asoftepiloguemylove]

mom, am i still young? can i dream for a few months more?

unknown / Maia Baia / Ethel Cain Family Tree / Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest / @/honeytuesday (on tumblr) / Lorde Writer in the Dark / Lidia Yuknavitch Letter to My Rage: An Evolution

i. unknown

[ "My mother is where it begins. / She and I are at war. / Our relation is hatred." ]

ii. Maia Baia

[ "Mother / Eat me and give birth to me again // This time around I'll make you proud" ]

iii. Ethel Cain, Family Tree

[ "I'm just a child but I'm not above violence / My mama raised me better than that" ]

iv. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

[ "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, that is his." ]

v. @/honeytuesday

[ "mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each otehr: i am all you could have been and you are all i might be." ]

vi. Lorde, Writer in the Dark

[ "I am my mother's child, I'll love you 'til my breathing stops / I'll love you 'til you call the cops on me" ]

vii. Lidia Yuknavitch, Letter to My Rage: An Evolution

[ "Or was my rage my mother's? Or her mother's? Or hers? An inherited creature?" ]

[thealogie]

the aesthetics of this “importance of being earnest” production are so on point. Max Webster I am truly obsessed with your mind

[theamazingdevilstan]

ok like it feels weird saying a man who died a century ago slayed but i meannn

[amicus-noctis]

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have  something sensational to read in the train.   - Oscar Wilde

Painting: "The Travelling Companions" by Augustus Leopold Egg.

[xxi0naxx]

[philosophybits]

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

[aduckwithears]

-Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

[lostcarnations]

At least three 35 year old American centrist (conservative) women have hung this quote up on their wall in blissful ignorance, calling it rn

[clarasteam]

it's a rubbish day, so here is Ncuti Gatwa looking beautiful with his ballet arms in rehearsal for The Importance of Being Earnest

📷: Marc Brenner

[kwistowee]

#wooing THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (2002)

[bodhrancomedy]

Algernon, my favourite Oscar Wilde character and my favourite monologue owner.

(Although the: “How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.” “Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly.” exchange is still the funniest one in the play)