Sunday 3 February 2019

Grand Duke


Rehearsals for The Grand Duke are well into Act 2 and we are looking forward to presenting one of Gilbert and Sullivan's little performed gems. Some sparkling music, including a sausage roll song, a roulette number and a gallop, and the usual madcap plot:
In the nation of Pfennig-Halbpfennig, the citizens are well and truly fed up with their ruler, the Grand Duke. A local theatrical company led by Ernest Dummkopf is involved in secret plans for a coup, but all are thrown into disarray when leading actor Ludwig inadvertently spills the beans to the Grand Duke’s detective. Chaos ensues when people try to save the day through a series of non-violent statutory duels with playing cards, where the loser legally ‘dies’ – starting a chain of 4 weddings and at least 2 ‘funerals’, together with political scheming. Into all this confusion come the Prince and Princess of Monte-Carlo with their newly-invented game of roulette… Will it be a happy ending? All bets are off!
The production has been updated by our Director, Graham Breeze, and we are all enjoying being a theatrical troupe playing a Theatrical Troupe! Buy your tickets online direct from the Queen Mother Theatre here:

http://queenmothertheatre.savoysystems.co.uk/QueenMotherTheatre.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsProgramme_427096