Stone Soup opened 2025 with Oscar Wilde’s classic farce, one of the favorite comedies of English literature full of mistaken identities and wordplay. Between the silliness, Wilde gives sharp commentary on morality and manners.

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.