Importance of Being Earnest

I thought this play was one that would have been especially good/more entertaining as a performance. The plays on words, Ernest/earnest, etc. would be much more humorous in speech than just being read.
This is another example of a story full of absurdities that all tie up nicely in the end.
The notion of Bunburrying seems like a great pretense for humorous situations, but the fact that 2 grown men were leading double lives makes it twice as funny, in addition to the fact that they share the Earnest character.
The women characters are more than a little dissappointing. They are not very deep and are obvious supporting characters, but do not have much of a plot line themselves - they only react to the men in their lives.
Lady Bracknell seems surprisingly eager to change her mind at the end. She upholds the highest standards of a lady until the very end, then simply changes her mind. The women characters are so very simple and predictable too, acting in a way that requires little to no thought and simply accepting whatever stories are told to them - both before and after they know the truth.
This is one of the many stories we've read where we can see that the author had a very "old-timey" view of women and their simple, insignificant ways.