The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, is a play by Oscar Wilde, which the story of two men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who both assume the identity of a fictional man named Ernest, leading them both to fall in love and find an assortment of problems along the way. This classic farce, with its rapid fire wit and broadly drawn characters, will delight and bemuse even the staunchist of us.