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.