S

Millennium Rep’s Teen Actors Guild brings you Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest,” beginning Friday, Jan. 16 at the Manchester Arts Center.

London bachelors Jack and Algernon are leading double lives. They invent fake identities so they can slip away for a bit of romance and fun, but things get complicated when they both pretend to be named Ernest while courting two women.

Director Kate Duke’s cast features Tucker Hill and Carter Jernigan as Jack and Algy, Lucy Smith and Eliza Griffey as Gwendolen and Cecily, the targets of their affection, and Edgar Guzman as Gwendolen’s meddling mother. Lacey Hill as Miss Prism, Eric Smartt as Rev. Chasuble, Thomas Keith as Lane, and Kayson James as Merriman round out the very funny cast.

The Importance of Being Earnest runs Jan. 16 – 18 and 23 – 25, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $17 for adults, $15 for seniors and military, and $10 for students, and are available at millenniumrep.org or by calling 931.570.4489.

The Arts Center is located just off Manchester’s historic square at 128 E. Main St.