Audience to get the chance to tread the boards as part of comedy play with an interactive twist, The Importance of Being. . . Earnest? coming to the Historic Regency Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
If you’ve ever thought what a fab experience it would be to appear on the stage at the historic Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, then there’s a chance you could do just that. The acclaimed comedy play The Importance of Being. . .Earnest? will be at the theatre on June 7 and 8 when an interactive twist will make its audiences the stars of the show.
In a riotous skew on a much-loved classic, the show opens to looming disaster; the actor playing Ernest fails to arrive on cue and in a monumental effort to ‘save the show’, a real audience member is quickly cast in the lead role. This impetuous recasting sets off a hilarious chain of events that, one-by-one, renders the rest of the cast unable to continue their performances, leading to more and more audience members being brought into the spotlight.
As more audience members are encouraged to step into the spotlight, led backstage for costume and make-up, impromptu auditions, the painting of portraits, the chanting of mantras; doing whatever’s needed to help the show go on, an absurd controlled madness ensues – until it feels as if there are almost as many audience members in the cast as there are in the. . . audience.
So, are you brave enough. . .?
