Gettysburg Area High School students will present The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Wilde Nights on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13 and 14, at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium, 1130 Old Harrisburg Road, Gettysburg.

The fall production combines four Oscar Wilde plays with music, fashion and dance from the 1990s. Adapted by Constance Tarbox and Lance Windish, it brings together characters and storylines from The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere’s Fan, An Ideal Husband and A Woman of No Importance.

The comedy blends mistaken identities, romances, secrets and social gossip with a soundtrack drawing on hip-hop, grunge and pop music. Tarbox said the adaptation also made room for a larger student cast.

“We had been playing with the idea of producing ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ for a while, but it never had enough roles for a high school cast. We decided the best way to attack the problem was to incorporate more characters from his other plays, believing that if a little scandal was fun, then a LOT of scandal would be fabulous!” Tarbox said.

Tarbox and Windish adapted, directed and designed the production, which involves 29 students. Bella DiCampli is the stage manager.

Tickets are $10 and will be sold at the door beginning 30 minutes before each performance. The show runs approximately 90 minutes, with a 15-minute intermission. Concessions, souvenirs and flower-grams will be sold to benefit the theater program.

More information is available at the GAHS fall play website.