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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan. In honor of that momentous musical/dramatic event, Kirkland House will present a modern. Staged version of their first joint effort. Trial by Jury...
...GILBERT'S DEFENDERS claimed that he was not attacking women's higher education as such, but merely ridiculing "male-less society." That's interesting, but it doesn't explain why nobody thought England's "female-less" universities were worthy of ridicule. Nor does it explain why everyone seemed to assume that women who were highly educated had to be fiercely virginal as well...
...this production--which, thank God, doesn't try to get funny with any embarrassing 20th-century gimmickry. There are plenty of slapstick embellishments, but--from the opening blast of "God Save the Queen" to the fake 19th-century programs, this production remains true to the spirits of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan themselves...
...Wayne Davies, who turns in a predictably excellent performances as King Gama, Ida's father. Gama is a grouchy, twisted troll of a man, constantly pointing out everyone's faults. "Everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man/And I can't think why!" he complains in a solo that Gilbert wrote as a jocular self-description. (Gilbert positively reveled in his reputation as an ogre. Around a scowling self-portrait, he once wrote. "I loathe everybody--I love to bully--Everybody is an Ass--I am an overbearing beast--I hate my fellow man--confound everything--I like pinching little...
...this is a production that is worthy of even the most devoted G. and S. fans--the ones who bring their Handbook of Gilbert and Sullivan along opening night, and even the ones who don't need to because they already know it by heart. A.G. and S. pursuit will find much delight and little to offend...