The School For Scandal

Name: The School For Scandal
Start: 2024-07-02
End: 2024-09-06
Location: Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Author(s): Richard Brinsley Sheridan Company: Royal Shakespeare Company

Venue: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Dates: 2 Jul–6 Sep 2024

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1770s London, where the aristocracy’s morals have plunged lower than the necklines on the women’s gowns.

The vicious Lady Sneerwell enjoys ruining reputations for pleasure, and her latest target is the young bachelor Charles Surface—why should this pretentious little rake inherit his uncle’s fortune?

Together with Charles’s conniving brother Joseph, Sneerwell orchestrates an elaborate scheme of intrigue and infidelity that’s sure to ruffle all the right feathers—hopefully.

News items

Geoffrey Streatfeild who will play Sir Peter Teazle

Streatfeild returns to RSC in School for Scandal

17 April 2024

Geoffrey Streatfeild is to return to the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Sir Peter Teazle in Sheridan’s The School for Scandal in Stratford.

Samantha Siro takes the role of Mistress Page

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11 April 2024

Samantha Spiro will make her Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Mistress Meg Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

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New RSC bosses announce year of shows

17 January 2024

Royal Shakespeare Company co-artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey have announced their inaugural season.

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