The School for Scandal

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.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

Stuart Bunce as Charles Surface

Jane Carr as Mrs. Candour

John H. Francis as Rowley/Others

Henri Lubatti as Snake, Moses/Others

Christopher Neame as Sir Oliver Surface

Moira Quirk as Maria/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/Others

Matthew Wolf as Sir Benjamin Backbite

Includes an interview with Michael Hackett-the Department Chair of Theater at UCLA. In addition to his extensive directorial work for L.A. Theatre Works-which includes plays by Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, and Noël Coward.

Directed by Michael Hackett. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in January of 2011.

Lead funding for The School for Scandal was made possible with support from the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.