Last but not least, a play review (#SFWApro)

As usual, my birthday present from TYG was the Durham Savoyards’ annual Gilbert & Sullivan show. This year was G&S’s penultimate production, UTOPIA LIMITED, in which an idyllic island struggles to adopt the ways of that Most Perfect of Nations, England. Which is about as much plot as this gets, the second act being almost entirely Satirical and Romantic Production Numbers (various power-grab schemes from Act One get completely dropped). Definitely not Gilbert and Sullivan’s A-game, but way more engaging on stage than when I read the script (and a lot better than Princess Ida). “I was sure it had its humorous side, and it was very dull of me not to have seen it before.”