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'Earnest endeavour': ; Student-run club produces Oscar Wilde play at GW

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From: Charleston Gazette
Date: 20071124
Author:Bayan Misaghi

The George Washington High School drama department performs The Importance of Being Earnest on Friday and Dec. 1. For time and ticket information, call 348-7729 or visit gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us.

Theater people are sometimes stereotypically considered unorganized and melodramatic. Students at George Washington High School, though, are proving these cliches wrong with their production of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest."

While other schools rely on the direction and supervision of adults, students at George Washington take the school's dictum of "learning through self-direction" to a ...

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