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The School For Scandal (Jeffries/Knight)

Full-Length Play  /  4w, 9m

Charles Jeffries, Jerry Knight, Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Adapted from Richard Brinsley Sheriden

A notorious high-society gossip employs several unscrupulous acquaintances in an attempt to break up a relationship between Charles Surface, whom she desires, and Maria, who stands to inherit a fortune and is in turn desired by one of the gossip's co-conspirators! A new look at Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic play. Excellent for High School and College actors.

The School For Scandal (Jeffries/Knight)

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    4w, 9m

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A notorious high-society gossip employs several unscrupulous acquaintances in an attempt to break up a relationship between Charles Surface, whom she desires, and Maria, who stands to inherit a fortune and is in turn desired by one of the gossip's co-conspirators! A new look at Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic play. Excellent for High School and College actors.
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LADY SNEERWELL - In love with Charles and helping Joseph to connect with Maria.
SNAKE - Friend of Lady Sneerwell. Forger, disreputable.
JOSEPH SURFACE - A hypocrite, a backbiter, constantly delivering moral sentences and professing noble sentime
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Charles Jeffries

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Jerry Knight

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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