The Mikado
T01413164924
A comic operetta with a Japanese theme. Songs such as 'Three Little Maids from School', 'A Wandering Minstrel', 'A Most Humane Mikado' etc. One of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular works. In the town of Titipu, local government has fallen into the hands of two dubious characters: Ko-Ko, in charge of public executions; and Pooh-Bah, who has a finger in every pie. A young man arrives who, unknown to most, is Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado. Fleeing an arranged marriage to the elderly Katisha, he falls for the beautiful Yum-Yum, Ko-Ko's fianc
Archive :: production:T01413164924, opera or operetta:S2026, venue:V949
Production details
With a brilliant and audacious stroke, Chris Monks' uproarious production take the action from Japan to Titipu Cricket Club, somewhere in England. To the uninitiated cricket is incomprehensible, like 19th century Japanese life - rule ridden and ritualistic, hide-bound by tradition, its hierarchy secretive and inscrutable, its officials having the power of life and death.
