Wilde about Windermere

A very enthusiastic amateur dramatic group decides to perform The Importance of Being Earnest in the local annual festival. There have been - shall we say - certain ways of doing things that have been set in stone for years, but change is afoot in the shape of a garrulous professional actor who arrives to direct. Mayhem ensues. Egos cannot cope with the status-quo being tipped upside down and sideways; deeply-held secrets threaten stability; relationships are at stake. . . Holliday has penned a gloriously comic romp regaling the wars between the Westmorland Amateur Festival Theatre members and the upstart newcomers. Things will never be the same again. Perhaps they should be performing The Importance of Being Honest.