The School for Scandal (1777)
From: Wednesday, 11th May 2011
To: Saturday, 18 June 2011
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Synopsis
The School for Scandal is a searing lampoon of a society obsessed by wit, fashion and public reputation. With its glorious cast of characters including Snake, Sir Benjamin Backbite, Lady Candour, and the Surface brothers, this is a timely revival of Sheridan’s high-spirited, comic masterpiece.
Barbican Artistic Associate Deborah Warner returns to the Barbican Theatre with The School for Scandal following her 2005 sell-out success of Julius Caesar. Her recent London productions include Mother Courage (National Theatre, 2009), Messiah (ENO, 2009) and The Waste Land (Wilton’s Music Hall).
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Michael Coveney - 23 May 2011
Deborah Warner’s triumphant, provocative and very noisy production of Sheridan’s The School for Scandal could not be more different from Peter Hall’s genteel and picturesque revival of Sheridan’s other great play, The Rivals, last year.
The irony is that Warner follows Hall’s RSC mantra of treating a classical masterpiece like a brand new play, and she tunes it right on to our wavelength of relishing the gossip, superficiality and moral hypocrisy of the day: there’s a pre-curtain fashion show, with the cast parading their virtues and vices on placards, to the accompaniment of loud, metallic rock music, dressed in modish shreds and tatters.
Jeremy Herbert’s design literally heaves into view, black and white canvases and etchings hoisted on pulleys; the brash informality of this presentation suits the kiss and tell, slapdash spiritedness of the play in the gossips’ school of Lady Candour, t...
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J Evans - 16 June 2011:
The play itself was well worth it, but we had to ignore all the hoo-ha with which the production saw fit to surround Sheridan. The general point seemed to be that gossip is still arouind today .... well, DER ! It would have been so much better if this excellent cast [Alan Howard, John Shrapnel, John McEnery et al] had just done it straight....
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R B Sheridan (Author)
Barbican Theatre (Producer)
Holland Festival (Producer)
Deborah Warner (Director)
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