Wedmore Theatre Club is staging Oscar Wilde’s much-loved classic “The Importance of Being Earnest”.

The production stars Alan Philps as the formidable Lady Bracknell, with Algernon played by Tristan Elliot Palmer, Jack by Greg Tyrrell, Gwendolen by Annie Gould and Cecily by Daisy Graham-Brown.

Elizabeth Coulter plays Miss Prism, with David Cole as the Rev Chasuble, and Peter Langley and Val Godfrey as the two servants, Lane and Merriman.

Numbered tickets are now available from the Wedmore Village Store, by phone from the Wedmore Theatre Box Office on 01278 641370, or on the Club’s website www.wedmoretheatre.com

Performances run from Thursday, April 7 to Saturday 9, at 7.30 at Wedmore Village Hall.

Director, Sue Rippon, said: "The play is about many things including the nature of truth but above all it is about the irrepressible exuberance of the young, and the selfish and arbitrary efforts of the old to repress it.

"Whilst a Victorian performance of the play might have seemed staid though witty, to us, we can today make it relevant to a modern, younger audience by giving it some of the attributes of modern comic theatre: unrestrained physical energy, irreverence, audience interaction and extended sequences of apparent confusion.

"I believe Oscar’s original intention, along with his wicked desire to satirise the English upper-classes, was to entertain audiences through a mixture of vitality, joy, fun and wit. And that’s what our team is aiming to achieve.”