Word: phantisize
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In the absence of the princess, Utopia deteriorates into a crime-infested country, with the ineffective king himself under the thumb of two judges of the Utopian Supreme Court, Scaphio and Phantis (played by Adam Feldman and Jonathan Deily respectively).
Scaphio and Phantis slander the king in the Palace Paper--a gossip newspaper that makes scandalous assertions about him. The mysterious author of these starting revelations--about how the king bathes in rum punch and gets showered down by a garden hose--is the king himself, who desperately tries, under...
The king's love for Lady Sophy (Christine Kienzle), an English Gouvernante who instructs his princesses Nekaya (Zarya Rubin) and Kalyba (Katie McGovern) in the ways of proper English ladies, further complicates his life. Phantis, meanwhile, loves Princess Zara, who will return that night from her voyage to the distant...
MUCH of the fun in G&S stems from the subtlety with which Gilbert carries off naughty innuendos. Yet while the scripts are not excessively prudish, they are firmly rooted in the Victorian age. Too much flesh and physical contact--whether sexual or violent--clashes with the authors' original intentions...
Sometimes the superior performances of a few stars can rescue a production like this one. Alas, in the case of Nan Hughes (as the imported British governess), and John Redd and Peter Miller (as Scaphio and Phantis) stellar performing only reinforces the weakness of the rest of the play, As...