The School for Scandal
The School for Scandal (1777) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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 Carey's burlesque Chrono(h)ontonthologus
Produced by NTO in 1958. *
The School for Scandal, Sheridan. Produced by Minna Millsten for the UCT Dramatic Society, Little Theatre, 1945. With Richard Buncher, Sybil Dee, Philip Segal, sets by Basil Warner.
The School for Scandal, directed by Roy Sargeant, opened at the Hofmeyr Theatre on 4 March 1969. 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.
Sources
South African Opinion, 2(8):22, 1945.
Teater SA, 1(4), 1969
Grütter, Wilhelm, CAPAB 25 Years, 1987. Unpublished research. p 59.
Return to S in Plays 1 Original SA Plays
Return to S in Plays 2 Foreign Plays
Return to South_African_Theatre/Plays
Return to Main Page