The Yeomen of the Guard

Tour synopsis, cast & creatives

One of the Gilbert and Sullivan light operettas. Includes; The Family Fool, The Merryman and his Maid, A Man Who Would Woo a Fair Maid, Ah Me!, The Philosophic Pill and A Mirage. Colonel Fairfax is sentenced to death on a false charge of sorcery and marries a strolling singer (Elsie) to stop his estate falling into the hands of his evil cousin. But then he escapes the sentence .. To tragic and comic consequence. Sung in English with English surtitles

Cast/Performers

William Morgan (Colonel Fairfax), Matthew Kellett (Jack Point), Llio Evans (Elsie Maynard), Samantha Price (Phoebe Meryll), Stephen Gadd (Sir Richard Cholmondeley), Amy J Payne (Dame Carruthers), John Savournin (Wilfred Shadbolt), Jack Roberts (Leonard Meryll), Natasha Agarwal (Kate), Christopher Killerby (First Yeoman), Alistair Sutherland (Second Yeoman), Ben Newhouse-Smith (First Citizen), Stuart McDermott (Second Citizen)

Creatives/Company

Author(s): W S Gilbert, A Sullivan
Producer: Opera Holland Park
Company(s): City of London Sinfonia, Opera Holland Park Chorus
Conductor: David Eaton
Director: John Savournin
Design: Alyson Cummins
Lighting: Jake Wiltshire
Choreographer: Merry Holden
Other: Richard Harker (chorus master)