But it is rarer to see Algernon whirling on to the stage in a hot pink gown, like Marilyn Monroe on acid, or Earnest camping it up with hand on hip. Or, indeed, their love interests having a same-sex kiss.
Max Webster's luscious period dress production fuels this story of Algernon (Ncuti Gatwa, flamboyance personified), Jack (Hugh Skinner, comically vulnerable) and their secret identities with queer doubleness. Algernon is a cross-dresser. Jack might swing both ways. Both show up conventional masculinity to be nothing more than a performance.
Algernon's guiding principle of "Bunburyism" (a sensible alter ego who offsets his amoral hedonism), has never sounded more like a sexual double entendre.
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