Beware the gossips! Lady Sneerwell and her hireling Snake are certainly up to no good in this timeless send-up of hypocritical manners. Thanks to their scandal-mongering, the comely Lady Teazle must fend off the slanderous barbs that have caught the ear of her elderly husband?as well as every other gossip in London. What follows is a torrent of mistaken identities and sex-crazed scheming in which the upper classes have never looked so low class.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Stuart Bunce as Charles SurfaceJane Carr as Mrs. CandourJohn H. Francis as Rowley/OthersHenri Lubatti as Snake, Moses/OthersChristopher Neame as Sir Oliver SurfaceMoira Quirk as Maria/MaidJulian Sands as Joseph SurfaceSusan Sullivan as Lady SneerwellTara Summers as Lady TeazleSimon Templeman as Sir Peter TeazleJames Warwick as Crabtree/OthersMatthew Wolf as Sir Benjamin BackbiteIncludes an interview with Michael Hackett-the Department Chair of Theater at UCLA. In addition to his extensive directorial work for L.A. Theatre Works-which includes plays by Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, and Noël Coward.Directed by Michael Hackett. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in January of 2011.Lead funding for The School for Scandal was made possible with support from the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.