Iolanthe

Church Hall, Barnes

December 1934

Musical Director – Miss Edith Hayes

Produced By – Mr & Mrs Enes Blackmore

Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri, is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh collaboration of the fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan.

Iolanthe was first produced in London at the Savoy Theatre, on 25 November 1882, three days after Patience closed, and ran for 398 performances. It was the first of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas to premiere at the Savoy Theatre. The story concerns a band of immortal fairies who find themselves at odds with the House of Peers. The opera satirises many aspects of British government and law.

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CAST

The Lord Chancellor – Edward Bellamy

Earl of Mountararat – John Webster

Earl Tolloller – Thomas Edgar

Private Willis – Fred Mason

Strephon – Eric Gledhill

Queen of the Fairies – Kathleen Kirby

Iolanthe – Kathleen Bellamy

Celia – Dorothy Branson

Leila – Dorothy Wilson

Fleta – Trissie Edgar

Phyllis – Marjorie Skuffham

Viscounts, Barons & Fairies – Alice Anderson, Nora Butler, Kitty Carpenter, Peggy Frewin, Ena Gledhill, Connie Grange, Daphne Grange, Miriam Greatorex, Irene Hamblin, Hilda Kirkby, Nora Neele, Eileen Skuffham

Chorus of Dukes, Marquises, Earls – Alfred Burrows, John C Broad, F E Harris, Eric Guttridge, Leonard Harris, Fred Holland, John Kirkby, Charles Long, Louis Mayo, Derrick Parry, Austin Rowe, Edward Tokeley

CREW

Scenery by – Cape of Chiswick

Costumes by – C H Fox Ltd