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One of Britain’s most popular comedies, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals, opens at the Seney-Stovall Chapel on Sept. 27 in a production by University Theatre.
Sheridan, best known for his play School for Scandal, is one of the most frequently produced playwrights in the English language. The Rivals, written in 1775, gave the English stage such memorable characters as Sir Lucius O’Trigger, Sir Anthony Absolute and, above all, Mrs. Malaprop, whose name has entered the language as the prototypical egregious mis-user of big words. Sheridan is credited with perfecting the comedy-of-manners style. In The Rivals, he combines broad “laughing comedy” with the rich characters of 18th-century sentimental drama to present the farcical situations of Mrs. Malaprop, her niece Lydia and their suitors. The effect has been boisterously entertaining for two centuries.
University Theatre’s production will be directed by Carolyn Blackinton, a faculty member in the drama and theatre department, and will feature a cast of graduate and undergraduate actors, singers and dancers.
The Rivals takes the stage at 8 p.m. Sept. 27-30 and Oct. 3-7 and 2:30 p.m. Oct. 1 in the Seney-Stovall Chapel at the Lucy Cobb Institute.
Tickets are $15 ($12 for students) and are on sale at the University Theatre box office, located in the lobby of the Fine Arts Building. Box office hours are noon-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. During those hours, the box office can be reached at 542-2838. Tickets will also be available one hour prior to showtime at the Seney-Stovall Chapel.
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