A comedy of very bad manners

BY RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN 
Starring: Scott Bellis, Ruth Brown, Jennifer Clement, Eric Davis, Christopher Gaze, Wendy Gorling, Peter Hall, Colin Heath, Mia K. Ingimundson, Kevin James, David Marr, Murray Price, Todd Thomson, Joel Wirkkunen
Director: Dean Paul Gibson
Design Team: Christine Hackman, Ted Roberts, Marsha Sibthorpe, Rebekka Sorensen, Neil Weisensel
Stage Management: Caryn Fehr, Pamela Jakobs

OCTOBER 26 – NOVEMBER 26, 2006 | STANLEY INDUSTRIAL ALLIANCE STAGE

“There’s no possibility of being witty without a little ill nature.”  

Lady Sneerwell, the leader of a pack of malicious gossips, wishes to marry the virtuous Charles. But Charles is in love with Maria, whose fortune is fancied by the rakish Joseph, who is also set upon seducing Lady Teazle, which naturally displeases her husband to no end! Throw bribery, sparkling dialogue, and a man called Snake into the melee, and you’ve got an effervescent Restoration comedy that bustles with energy. Dean Paul Gibson, one of Vancouver’s preeminent directors, helms this dynamic farce.

 Critics and audiences are raving about The School for Scandal

“this rich romp" has ‘hit’ written all over it”—Peter Birnie, The Vancouver Sun [Read the full review]

“the first must-see show of the abundant fall season”—Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight 
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“…True satire, exposing scandal itself and making an eternal statement about hypocrisy.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Lush and lively comedy of manners” —Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

“A classic...incapable of losing its freshness” —The New York Times

“Classic comedy of bad manners” —Minneapolis CityPages

“School for Scandal elevates idle gossip to an art form” —The Daily Princetonian

Combine bribery, sparkling dialogue, malicious Lady Sneerwell, and a man called Snake and you’ve got an effervescent Restoration comedy that bustles with energy.

First produced in 1777 at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, The School for Scandal is widely considered to be the finest comedy of manners in the English language.