Film

The School for Scandal

2010 · 2h 34m

Elizabeth Freestone's production of Sheridan's classic is a long way from the lace wristbands and fussily flourished bows that used to be conventional for eighteenth-century revivals. Using the same permanent setting as the production of Doctor Faustus with which it plays in repertoire, plus a traverse curtain for front scenes and the addition of some piles of newspapers on top of its bookcases and some splayed pages down by the added footlights to remind us of contemporary scandal sheets, it moves along at a delightful canter, challenging its audience to keep up with its non-stop flow of wit.

Guy Burgess

Snake

Amy Rockson

Mrs Sneerwell

Harvey Virdi

Mrs Candour

Gareth Kennerley

Sir Benjamin Backbite

• Elizabeth FreestoneDirector

Release date

September 27, 2010

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 34m