The School for Scandal

Summary

Beware the gossips! Lady Sneerwell and her hireling Snake are certainly up to no good in this timeless send-up of hypocritical manners. Thanks to their scandal-mongering, the comely Lady Teazle must fend off the slanderous barbs that have caught the ear of her elderly husband—as well as every other gossip in London! What follows is a torrent of mistaken identities and sex-crazed scheming in which the upper classes have never looked so low class. Includes an interview with Michael Hackett, the Chair of the Department of Theater in the School of Theater, Film, and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles.

This is an LA Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Stuart Bunce as Charles Surface; Jane Carr as Mrs. Candour; John H. Francis as Rowley and others; Henri Lubatti as Snake, Moses, and others; Christopher Neame as Sir Oliver Surface; Moira Quirk as Maria and Maid; Julian Sands as Joseph Surface; Susan Sullivan as Lady Sneerwell; Tara Summers as Lady Teazle; Simon Templeman as Sir Peter Teazle; James Warwick as Crabtree and others; and Matthew Wolf as Sir Benjamin Backbite. Directed by Michael Hackett and recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.