The School for Scandal

Elizabeth Freestones production of Sheridans classic is a long way from the lace wristbands and fussily flourished bows that used to be conventional for eighteenthcentury revivals Using the same permanent setting as the production of Doctor Faustus with which it plays in repertoire plus a traverse curtain for front scenes and the addition of some piles of newspapers on top of its bookcases and some splayed pages down by the added footlights to remind us of contemporary scandal sheets it moves along at a delightful canter challenging its audience to keep up with its nonstop flow of wit