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''[[The School for Scandal]]''  by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan]. 

== The original text ==

Considered to be one of the greatest comedies of manners in the English language, the play was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on 8 May 1777.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1818: Done in South Africa by the [[Gentlemen Amateurs]] in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town on 27 June 1818, with the help of [[Mr Cooke]] and his company of ladies. The afterpiece was given as Carey's burlesque ''[[The Tragedy of Chrononhotonthologos|Chrononhotonthologos]]''.

1873: Performed on board ship, ''en route'' to Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]]'s company, with ''[[To Oblige Benson]]'', as a benefit for the "Cape Town Dispensary".

1929: It was one of the plays performed by a West End theatre company from London, led by actor-manager [[Gerald Lawrence]], which toured South Africa and Rhodesia, putting on a portfolio of five plays.  The tour played in venues owned by [[African Theatres]] Ltd. and started in Johannesburg on 1st April 1929 and finished in Cape Town on 3rd October.

1945: Produced by [[Minna Millsten]] for the [[UCT Dramatic Society]], [[Little Theatre]], 1945. With [[Richard Buncher]], [[Sybil Dee]], [[Philip Segal]], [[Anthony Robinson]], [[John Juritz]], [[Audrey Pearce]], [[Godfrey Isaacs]], [[Blake Pinnel]], [[Nell Reeve]], [[Anthony Hodgson]]. Sets by [[Basil Warner]].

1958: Produced for [[National Theatre Organisation]] in 1958 by [[Leon Gluckman]] with a distinguished cast, including [[Margaret Inglis]], [[Pieter Geldenhuys]], [[Frank Wise]] and [[Siegfried Mynhardt]]. Costumes by [[Frank Graves|Frank]] and [[Doreen Graves]]. [[Joyce Grant]], as Mrs. Candour, [[Zoe Randall]], as Lady Sneerwell, and [[David Beattie]], as Sir Benjamin Mackbite.

1969: Performed at the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]], opening on 4 March 1969. Directed by [[Roy Sargeant]], with décor and costumes designed by [[Keith Anderson]]. The cast included [[Philip Birkinshaw]], [[Elliot Playfair]], [[Bernard Brown]], [[David Goatham]], [[Lyn Hooker]], [[Zoë Randall]], [[Yvonne Bryceland]], [[Wilson Dunster]], [[Ralph Lawson]], [[Roger Dwyer]], [[Ken Leach]], [[Pietro Nolte]], [[Alan Prior]], [[Will Bernard]], [[John Ramsbottom]], [[Gillian Garlick]], [[Joey Wishnia]], [[Glynn Day]], [[Brian Kennedy]], [[Gaenor Becker]], [[Gordon Sara]], [[Lorna Robertson]].

1980: Produced by [[PACT]], directed by [[Roy Sargeant]] during the [[National Arts Festival]] with [[Bobby Heaney]], [[Richard Haines]], [[Erica Rogers]], [[John Hussey]] and [[Margaret Heale]] amongst others in the cast.

==Translations and adaptations==

== Sources ==

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_for_Scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan

''[[South African Opinion]]'', 2(8):22; ''[[Trek]]'' 19(7):23, 1945.

Photograph held by [[NELM]] (1958 NTO production): [Collection: GLUCKMAN, LEON]: 1995. 2. 3. 1. 1. 211.

''[[Teater SA]]'', 1(4), 1969.

''The School for Scandal'' theatre programme (CAPAB), 1969.

[[Wilhelm Grütter| Grütter, Wilhelm]], ''[[CAPAB]] 25 Years, 1987. Unpublished research''. p 59.

''Performing Arts'', HSRC, 1972.

''[[The Star]]'' 2 July 1980.

Robert Kay. 2011. "Gerald Lawrence, Elgar and the missing Beau Brummel Music", ''The Elgar Society Journal'': pp.4-28[http://elgar.org/elgarsoc/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Vol.-17-No.-3-December-2011-Compressed.pdf]

http://www.elgar.org/3brummel.htm

''[[The S.A. Merry-Go-Round]]'', 2(4):28. August 21st, 1929.

Correspondence from Robert Kay of Acuta Music[http://www.acutamusic.co.uk/], Monday 13 July, 2015.

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 154, 210. 

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 306,  

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