THE School for Scandal is currently causing more than a titter or two at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol, as the acclaimed Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory company brings Sheridan's masterpiece to life.
The scandal-mongers of eighteenth century London seem extraordinarily close to home in Sheridan's masterful linguistic comedy, which follows hot on the heels of 2014’s exceptional production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, directed by Andrew Hilton.
Lady Sneerwell, Sir Benjamin Backbite and the unctuous Mr Snake are horribly – but deliciously – familiar. In our own time they could well have found themselves alongside Andy Coulson in the Old Bailey dock.
Into this scurrilous world Sheridan weaves an affecting romance between a moral young woman and a warmhearted but spendthrift young man on the point of bankruptcy. Linking the two elements is his duplicitous brother – the aptly named ‘Surface’ – whose capacity to deceive is finally exploded.
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