Details

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.

Cast/Performers

Anthony Gregory (Col. Fairfax), Neal Davies (Sergeant Meryll of the Yeomen), Heather Lowe (Phoebe Meryll), Alexandra Oomens (Elsie Maynard), Steven Page (Sir Richard Cholmondeley), Susan Bickley (Dame Carruthers), Innocent Masuku (Leonard Meryll), John Molloy (Wilfred Shadbolt), Isabelle Peters (Kate), Richard McCabe (Jack Point)

Creatives/Company

Author(s): W S Gilbert, A Sullivan
Director: Jo Davies
Design(s): Anthony Ward, Andrzej Gulding (video)
Conductor: Chris Hopkins
Lighting: Oliver Fenwick
Sound: Nick Lidster
Choreographer: Kay Shepherd