The Sorcerer
T1396910299
First performed in 1877,
The Sorcerer is a comic mixture of requited and unrequited love. John Wellington Wells, the Sorcerer, places magic potion in the village teapot, causing everyone to fall asleep. On waking they passionately fall in love with the first person they see! Mismatches ensue, but true love triumphs in the end, through a series of delightful songs and choruses and some very amusing dialogue.
Archive :: production:T1396910299, opera or operetta:S2090, venue:V910
Current production:Work
Production details
This brand new production of The Sorcerer, Gilbert & Sullivan’s first success, moves the story from its quaint Victorian setting to sleepy rural Britain in the 1970s. John Wellington Wells, the celebrated dealer in “magic and spells”, spreads chaos and havoc in an unsuspecting country village when he places a powerful aphrodisiac in the village hall teapot. The resulting revelations are indeed "a marvellous illusion, a terrible surprise!"
