The Rivals
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Narrated by Lloyd Owen, Lucy Davis and Full Cast
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About this audiobook
Includes an interview with Linda Kelly, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Life.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Rosalind Ayres as Mrs. Malaprop
Kenneth Danziger as Thomas
Lucy Davis as Lydia Languish
Neil Dickson as David
Sarah Drew as Julia
Julian Holloway as Sir Lucius O’Trigger
Chris Neame as Sir Anthony Absolute
Lloyd Owen as Captain Jack Absolute
Moira Quirk as Lucy
Matthew Wolf as Faulkland
Directed by Martin Jarvis. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in 2010.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In need of funds, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) turned to the only craft that could gain him the remuneration he desired in a short time: he began writing a play. He had over the years written and published essays and poems, and among his papers were humorous unfinished plays, essays and political tracts, but never had he undertaken such an ambitious project as this. In a short time, however, he completed The Rivals. He was 23 years old.
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Reviews for The Rivals
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I listened to this full audiobook via the L.A. Theatre Works website. I so do enjoy this play, especially Mrs. Malaprop! A wonderful way to spend a grey morning :)
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This comedy was first produced in 1775 and much of its humour still comes across well, with confusions of identities, romantic misunderstandings and, most famously, the wonderful comic creation of Mrs Malaprop, with her confusions of similar sounding words which have given birth to a term in modern English, such as "an allegory (alligator) on the banks of the Nile" or "the very pine-apple (pinnacle) of politeness". I enjoyed this rather more than School for Scandal.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was witty and amusing with very strongly drawn characters - much better than I was expecting, and a good readthrough.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Saw "The Rivals" in 5th grade with my best friend Matt and his parents at the tiny Park Square Theater in downtown Saint Paul, and loved it. I bought this copy at the Killarney Bookshop on my honeymoon. (Yes, I got to go book-shopping on my honeymoon: what a lucky man!)