Sheridan comedy has star cast
With a gallery of richly amusing characters and hilariously-contrived situations, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy “School For Scandal” has been 7 a box office success ever since it was first produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1777. The plot is complex. Elderly Sir Peter Teazle has recently married a young and beautiful girl. Country-bred, She has taken to the pleasures of London with a zest not at all to her husband’s liking, and he is particularly worried by the way she has
become intimate with Lady Sneerwell, Mrs Candour and Sir Benjamin Backbie, a group of scandiamongers who "strike a character dead at . every word.” Their targets at the moment are the Surface brothers; Joseph, a hypocrite of no mean proportions, and Charles, a goodnatured, reckless spendthrift. The latter is in love with Sir Peter’s ward Maria who returns his affections. Joseph is courting the girl for her fortune, and at the same time
he is making advances to Lady Teazle. Sir Oliver Surface returns unexpectedly from India and decides to make a trial of his nephews’ characters before revealing himself. Disguised as a moneylender, he visists Charles, who sells him all the family portraits except for one of Sir Oliver himself. Charles says he has a great attachment for it, and so wins his uncle’s heart. “School For Scandal” will be shown by TV2 on Sunday night.
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Press, 19 October 1976, Page 19
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