Pirates of Penzance Team Back With More G&S
The team behind last year’s hit, all-male Pirates of
Penzance, are joining forces again for another Gilbert & Sullivan
spectacular, All-Male Iolanthe, which will run at the Union
Theatre from 17 November to 11 December.
Directed by Sasha Regan, with musical direction by Chris
Mundy and choreography by Mark Smith, All-Male Iolanthe is
a gender-bending adaptation of Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri,
which was first performed at the Savoy Theatre in 1882. The comic opera sees a
band of fairies, led by the eponymous Iolanthe, mistress of fairy revels, go up
against members of the House of Lords in an attempt to persuade the Lord
Chancellor to allow his beautiful ward, Phyllis, to marry Iolanthe’s son,
Strephon.
The show features a cast of 14, including several actors
who appeared in Pirates of Penzance. Pirates of
Penzance won the Whatsonstage.com Award for Best Off-West End
Production 2010.
