Oscar Wilde’s beloved farce…
… a trivial comedy for serious people.
Book by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Lily Vance
Shows presented at
The Honeysuckle Teahouse
8871 Pickards Meadow Rd
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
February – March 2025
Cast
| Jack Worthing | Reid Cater |
| Algernon Moncrieff | Joe Nussbaum |
| Gwendolen Fairfax | Molly Albright |
| Cecily Cardew | Georgia Bean |
| Lady Bracknell | Leanne Bernard |
| Dr. Chasuble | John Adams |
| Miss Prism | Cecilia Lindgren |
| Lane / Merriman | The King Teen |
Design & Crew
| Producer | Melissa Dombrowski |
| Stage Manager | Madi Ugan |
| Asst. Stg Mgr / Light Ops | Geo Nelson |
| Set Design | Lily Vance |
| Lighting Design | Eva Buckner |
| Sound Design | Jos Purvis |
| Costume Design | Lisa Hess |
| Prop Master | |
| Master Carpenter | Nathan Dickson |
Stone Soup opened 2025 with Oscar Wilde’s classic farce, filled with mistaken identities, wordplay, and social commentary on the absurdity of manners and morality.
Two charming young ladies—sophisticated Gwendolen from the city and naive Cecily from the country—are in love with Earnest Worthing. But there is no such person as Earnest Worthing! Gwendolen thinks Jack is Earnest, and Cecily thinks Algy is Earnest. Each girl swears that she could never love a man who wasn’t named Earnest. In the midst of all this confusion comes Lady Bracknell, who doesn’t like the idea of anybody loving anybody.
It sounds like a big mess, but Wilde unwinds this knotty affair into one of the favorite comedies of English literature.