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GORDON PARSONS relishes a fast moving production of Sheridan’s comic masterpiece
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The School for Scandal
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon

 

RECOGNISED as an actors’ play, Richard Sheridan’s 18th-century satire on contemporary manners has long been long recognised as a comic masterpiece. 

The playwright would assuredly have been delighted with Tinuke Craig’s new production. Along with her Set and Costume Designer, Alex Lowde, she has created an essentially modern treatment which never forgets that it celebrates its own time while constantly nudging its audience to recognise itself.

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