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The Sacramento Theatre Company kicked off their 2010-11 "Return to the Classics" season Saturday with Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” directed by STC Artistic Director Matt K. Miller. The play, set in midsummer 1895, gives scene to the characters of Wilde’s epic farce of mistaken identities. Two playboy best friends discover they both have scapegoat alter-egos, and antics ensue when both fall in love with ladies who believe them to be the alter-ego of the other. It’s complicated, twisted, wonderful and comical, but in the end it all gets sorted out as the two men find out the vital importance of being earnest/Ernest. The text has always served as a conduit for extreme so