Author: Sal
‘Iolanthe’: Island Savoyards Latest Show
Thursday, 10th April, 2008 at 12:00 pm, Isle of Wight
| 30, April 2008 | ||
| 7:45 pm |
If you are a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan then make sure you grab tickets for this event.
At the end of the month, 126 years after it was first produced at the Savoy Theatre in London, The Island Savoyards will be performing their rendition of ‘Iolanthe’.
Iolanthe is a ‘fairy opera’ in which the House of Lords is lampooned as a bastion of the ineffective, privileged and dim-witted. 126 years later and some might say that sounds pretty familiar.
Performances take place at the Shanklin Theatre between 30th April and 3rd May at 7.45pm with a matinee show 2.30pm on Saturday 3rd May.
Tickets are priced at £10 adult, £5 child, £9 each if booking a group 10 or more.
Call the Box Office on 01983 868000 to book your tickets.
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April 10th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
the forum poster known as LULU should like this.
for anyone who doesn’t know - there are plenty of FAIRIES in iolanthe.
Twenty-five years prior to the beginning of the opera, Iolanthe, the mistress of fairy revels, who arranged all the fairy dances and songs, committed the capital crime (under fairy law) of marrying a mortal human.
The Queen of the fairies commuted Iolanthe’s sentence of death to banishment for life on the condition that Iolanthe left her husband and never communicated with him again.
After the passage of 25 years, the fairies, still missing Iolanthe deeply, plead with the Queen to pardon Iolanthe and to restore her place in fairyland…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iolanthe
April 10th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Is this show accessible to all do you know, seb?
April 10th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
thanks i think miss lulu is going , and might be dressing up a bit , but wont be sitting in the wings or so she said !!!!
April 15th, 2008 at 9:48 am
i don’t know if it’s accessible to all, eric.
for those who want to gen up beforehand, there’s an iolanthe-primer on radio today :
Tales from the Stave: Iolanthe
Tuesday 15 April 2008 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Repeated: Saturday 19 April 2008 15:30-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Frances Fyfield tracks down the stories behind the scores of well-known pieces of music.
Frances is joined by Kit Hesketh-Harvey, opera singer Richard Suart and Gilbert and Sullivan biographer Michael Ainger to look at the manuscript of the celebrated operetta.
The score and prompt book offer a vivid insight into a composer at the height of his theatrical powers and a satirist with a clear vision of the way the work should be delivered.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/musicfeature/pip/e8iuu/
April 29th, 2008 at 10:11 am
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