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...like your music swelling, your symbols phallic, and your women ignorant, then “Princess Ida” is the show...
...rare foray by Gilbert and Sullivan into social criticism, the musical treats the titular namesake Princess Ida (Lisa D. Lareau ’06) in her battle against patriarchy and the masculine world. Engaged from infancy to Prince Hilarion (Pedro K. Kaawaloa Jr. ’05), a 20-year-old Ida chooses to forsake the safety of her relationship with her male partner and instead cloisters herself within a female university, where she abandons all things male...
...women carried axes, hinting at castration and emasculation. Ida’s university, Castle Adamant, itself seemed to serve as a symbol for the female genitalia, since the Prince and his courtiers had to “penetrate” it in order to win over the Princess and the students...
...women carried axes, hinting at castration and emasculation. Ida’s university, Castle Adamant, itself seemed to serve as a symbol for the female genitalia, since the Prince and his courtiers had to “penetrate” it in order to win over the Princess and the students...
...Princess Ida”’s message seems outdated by modern standards, and unfortunately the story itself and its songs are not compelling enough to overcome this conceptual flaw. Regardless of the work’s merit, the actors and directors collaborated admirably to synthesize a good production of perhaps only a mediocre musical...