

The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.

Isabel Dean
Mrs. Gilbert

Wilfrid Hyde-White
Mr. Marston

Muriel Aked
Queen Victoria

Michael Ripper
Louis

Bernadette O'Farrell
Jessie Bond

Frank Williams
Singer Rehearsing