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Feature Review - Paul Gladwell

The School for Scandal

Sitting in the intimate yet relatively modern surrounds of the East Waterloo Theatre waiting for the start of the performance started me thinking - How will this work for a comedy first performed back in 1777? But it did. In fact there was the odd modern hint added to the performance that was to help. Eurythmics started it off with Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) as the opening scene came into play with the stage lighting up with flashing orange.

The staging was simple with no significant changes made throughout and to be honest it looked a little tired but with the stage being small and so close to the audience the larger than life characters soon meant you forgot about the props.

Lady Sneerwell (played expertly by Grace Fairbairn) opened proceedings and you quickly knew that there was to be some very interesting twists and acts of conspiracy throughout. Although things started a little slow the plot soon came together as more of the characters were introduced. Mrs Candour (Alicia Bennett) made one of the most memorable entrances; an excitable character with some of the best lines.

As the story went on with double cross after double cross, things started to link up and in one of the later scenes was the best part of the performance. In fact it was played superbly. It involved brothers Joeseph Surface (Sebastian Aguirre) and Charles Surface (Shai Forester) plus Sir Peter Teazle (Rob Maloney) and Lady Teazle (Tabitha Becker-Kahn). Sebastian Aguirre was brilliant as he tried in vain to cover up his deceit. You can really sense his panic and anguish as the characters find out what he has been up to. The scene was played with great comedic timing.

The entire cast performed very well and did great justice to their characters. For me Rob Maloney who played Sir Peter was just about the stand-out performer. In fact he reminded me a little of a younger Ian Holm. He played his part in an amiable manner yet in a moment had the audience on edge with explosions of anger and frustration towards his young wife.

This is a must see. Turn of the Wheel Productions launched in January this year and this performance was more than promising. It will be worth looking out for future productions of theirs for sure...

Paul Gladwell
  
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