A Gilbert and Sullivan Double Bill
Sweethearts - A play by W.S. Gilbert, and The Zoo - An operetta by Arthur Sullivan and Bolton Rowe
Sweethearts - A play by W.S. Gilbert, and The Zoo - An operetta by Arthur Sullivan and Bolton Rowe
Sweethearts is a romantic comedy about childhood friends Henry and Jenny who rediscover their love for each other after thirty years apart.
About The Play
About The Play
This production sold out for its entire run
The Finborough Theatre’s acclaimed series of revivals of British Music Theatre, thefinboroughgaieties, continues with a unique doublebill featuring a play and an operetta, both receiving their first professional UK production in over a century production – and written by Gilbert without Sullivan, and Sullivan without Gilbert. Both productions will be fully staged productions without decor.
Sweethearts
A play by W.S. Gilbert
Directed by Kate Golledge. Designed by Morgan Large. Costume Design by Nell Knudsen. Lighting by James Whiteside.
W.S. Gilbert’s romantic comedy. Spanning a generation, Sweethearts is a duet for two lovers – a couple that have been friends since childhood but never dared to be anything more. Returning from India after thirty years, Henry finds his Jenny still single in her childhood home and their love for each other only just beginning. Written for local resident Marie Bancroft in 1874.
The Zoo
An operetta by Arthur Sullivan and Bolton Rowe
Directed by Nina Brazier. Orchestration and Arrangements by Timothy Henty.
Musical Direction by David Eaton. Choreography by Julie Hope. Designed by Anna Bliss-Scully. Lighting by James Whiteside. Costume Design by Nell Knudsen.
Arthur Sullivan’s neglected ‘musical folly’ centres around two couples and their hilarious and rocky path to true love. Within a zoological gardens, suicide is foiled and identities revealed as four young lovers overcome differences in wealth and class to live happily ever after. Unseen professionally in the UK since 1879.