#lady bracknell

[mndvx]

NCUTI GATWA and SHARON D. CLARKE in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (2025)

[greyhoundone]

The Importance of Being Earnest / Doctor Who

[velvet4510]

Shoutout to The Importance of Being Earnest for being a feminist play a CENTURY before feminism was officially a thing.

Think about it: the women hold all the cards and all the power in that play, and the men are just running around trying to please them. Jack needs to find a way to get Gwendolen’s MOTHER’s approval of their union; her father doesn’t even show up. Algernon submits wholeheartedly to spending the rest of his life fulfilling Cecily’s fantasy and being the dream man she’s imagined in her head for years. The two protagonists are literally willing to CHANGE THEIR NAMES so they’ll have the name their girlfriends want them to have. And ultimately it’s Miss Prism - the unmarried older woman - who holds the answer to the entire play’s central mystery.

Yes, it’s a comedy, but still, those guys let their ladies wear the pants in their relationships and it is GLORIOUS to see in a play written in the 1890s. Praise Oscar Wilde.

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil,

continuing on the closed captions hell:

Amazon insists Crowley calls Aziraphale "Lady Brackney" in the pub scene, but I googled around and think he actually made a Lady Bracknell reference, cause Britannica says "[she] is the embodiment of conventional upper-class Victorian respectability". Would you confirm that?

Thanks in advance if you ever answer this ✨

Yes. That's the only line in the show that David improvised, too. I believe every take he'd order a sherry for Aziraphale with a different request (in the script I thought he'd be too far away to hear so I hadn't written a line). I love that he calls Aziraphale "Lady Bracknell" for all sorts of reasons.

[spiralkisser]

I forgot I have this account. Here have an art dump

My blorbos #my blorbos

[will-graham-coded]

I will not rest until ik why Mycroft wears a wedding band. Did Mark keep forgetting to take his off? Is there a Mr. Holmes hiding somewhere in that mansion? Is he a widower? ALSO, I demand to see this drama queen's Lady Bracknell. That's all, thanks xxx

[donnalawliet]

Just had this meme from my “The importance of being earnest“ play lying around. Enjoy!

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Hello again, thank you for making me aware of the bonus stuff, I probably wouldn't have noticed. :) Maybe a hard task but I was wondering if you or one of your lovely followers could do a transcript of the "Crowley ordering drinks" blooper? I only get half of it and there are no subtitles ...

Hiya! :) Hello, large Talisker please and a sherry for:

Lady Bracknell

Angela Lansbury

my maiden aunt

the dowager duchess

elderly friend

Miss Marple

the old lady