Modern-Dress School For Scandal: Critic Answers Back To Deborah Warner’s Defense

Michael Billington: “But, surely, a lot depends on the nature of the play and how you pitch it. … [Sheridan] was writing a social comedy rooted in 18th-century manners and delighting in verbal precision. To place it, as Warner does, in a world that’s part 18th century and part punk fashion and hard rock is simply to sow confusion.”