Word: scaphio
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...everyone is rooting for these English invaders, even though the audience may be. Scaphio (Charlie I. Miller ’08) and Phantis (Daniel V. Kroop ’10) are two native “Wise Men” who start out with total control of the King’s actions—they even force him to write and publish a tabloid slandering himself called “The Palace Peeper.” But as Utopia is Anglicized, Scaphil and Phantis get pushed out. They’re none too happy about...
...Utopia, Limited” feels harried and confused, but that’s no fault of the HRG&SP. Gilbert and Sullivan themselves got into arguments about the show’s construction and left those arguments mostly unresolved. As a result, an anticipated duel between Scaphio and Phantis for the love of Zara never takes place, among other incongruities...
...stage is already complex enough, with peripherals such as the hilarious public Exploder Tarara (Leo Clark) and the meek Vice-Chamberlain (Mark Hagar) adding to the confusion, without Scaphio falling in love with the Princess Zara. In one of the play's most humorous moments, Scaphio talks insensibly about his love for Zara, whom he calls "intoxicating, a veritable goddess," prompting Phantis, who has loved the princess all along, to reply with characteristic understatement, "Yes, the girl is perfectly okay...
...alone with her father, Zara criticizes him for letting the country lapse into such a state of affairs, and directs her anger primarily at the Palace Paper, which she calls "ungrammatical twaddle." The unhappy King, whose bruised ego has been dealt yet another blow, finally confesses the hold that Scaphio and Phantis have over...
...they set about their task of forming a company out of the country, where "every child has its own prospectus" and "every man, woman and child is a company limited," Dramaleigh and Goldburg woo the two highly repressed princesses, much to the annoyance of Lady Sophy, Phantis and Scaphio...