The Importance of Being Earnest

Summary: 1986 Channel 4 broadcast of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, adapted from a stage production directed by Michael Attenborough.
Theatre play: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde [more information]
Play synopsis: 'A farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play’s major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways’ (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest).
Production history: First performed on 14 February 1895 at St James’s Theatre in London.
Date of transmission: Thursday 25 December 1986
Channel: Channel 4