Stage, film and TV star Joseph Marcell heads the cast of a new production of The School for Scandal at the Oxford Playhouse on Tuesday June 4th until Saturday June 8th.
Marcell, who is probably best-known for his role as Geoffrey the Butler in the six seasons of the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, plays Sir Peter Teazle in this fresh take on Richard B. Sheridan’s comedy of manners.
The School for Scandal is a story of gossip, rumour, tangled love and revenge. Sir Peter Teazle believes his young wife is sleeping with someone else. She isn’t.
But she’s starting to think if her husband believes it, she may as well give it a go. After all, if you’re going to cause a scandal, you might as well enjoy it…
Described as deliciously naughty and outrageously silly, this timeless comedy is a masterclass in social satire and the art of gossip
Joseph Marcell was most recently seen in Chiwetel Ejiofor’s debut feature film, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. TV credits include Mammoth and I Hate You (BBC), and he is soon to star in Candice Carty-William’s Queenie (Channel 4). He also has prolific stage credits including Hamlet at the Young Vic with Cush Jumbo, Kathy Burke’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, and extensive work with Shakespeare’s Globe and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The cast also features Garmon Rhys (ITV’s Out There, HBO/Sky Atlantic’s Gangs Of London, and Tina: The Musical, West End) as ‘Charles Surface’; Ayesha Griffiths (Channel 4’s Queenie and Get Millie Black) as ‘Maria’; Emily-Jane McNeill (The Mousetrap and Brexshit, both West End) as ‘Lady Sneerwell’; Alex Phelps (As You Like It, Shakespeare’s Globe, When Darkness Falls, Park Theatre and UK tour) as ‘Joseph Surface’; Lydea Perkins (Private Lives, The Mill At Sonning, Sense & Sensibility, Theatre By The Lake) as ‘Lady Teazle’; Tony Timberlake (Little Shop of Horrors, Storyhouse Chester, Maggie May, Leeds Playhouse, When Darkness Falls, UK Tour) as ‘Sir Oliver’; and Guy Dennys (Tilted Wig’s Around the World in 80 Days and Lady Chatterley’s Lover) as ‘Rowley’.
Tickets for The School for Scandal at Oxford Playhouse start from £14 and are available from Box Office: 01865 305305 or book online at www.oxfordplayhouse.com
