INTRODUCTION from Director Nikolai Foster

Welcome to our educational resource for Wilde’s masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. We hope you enjoy using it as much as we have enjoyed working on this production.

We have developed this resource pack with the same inside out, accessible ethos that Curve is built on. We hope the information will offer a practical understanding of how we make our productions and the skills and techniques designers, actors, directors, voice coaches, composers and production teams use when creating a production.

There are sections we hope will aid your exploration of the play, such as character breakdowns, a timeline and family tree, as well as a glossary of references. These things were all incredibly helpful to us in rehearsals, especially as our understanding of the complexity of the characters deepened, and a straightforward plot suddenly felt more complicated than it really is. We hope you enjoy the fly-on-the-wall audio links, video, classroom activity ideas and photographs to support your understanding of our process.

Please let us know your thoughts and feedback; it really is helpful to us.

To kick it all off, here is an interview our Designer, Isla Shaw and I took part in during rehearsals, which I hope serves as a good introduction to the production overall.

THEATRE AS A MIRROR

The final production trailer.

VIDEO LINK FINAL PRODUCTION TRAILER