{"id":2634,"date":"2019-01-04T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T00:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morpheustheatre.ca\/?post_type=portfolio&p=2634"},"modified":"2020-03-31T15:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T21:04:53","slug":"princess-ida","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.morpheustheatre.ca\/?portfolio=princess-ida","title":{"rendered":"Princess Ida"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Princess Ida<\/h2>\n

April 26th to May 11th, 2019
\nBy Gilbert and Sullivan
\nDirected by Kaleigh Richards<\/p>\n

Princess Ida is having nothing to do with men, never mind love, or marriage. She is so firm in her belief that she has locked herself away in a University, attended only by women, and that is exactly where she plans to stay. She was betrothed to young Prince Hilarion from a very early age, and her failure to arrive to meet him with her father, King Gama, could be interpreted as an act of war, but still, she is having none of it. In fact, she\u2019s willing to fight the men who show up on her doorstep if need be. Her fellow chaste and heretofore uninterested female friends, on the other hand, find themselves face to face with Cupid and less keen to do battle.<\/p>\n

Princess Ida is based on the 1847 narrative poem \u201cThe Princess\u201d by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in which the title character escapes an arranged marriage to found a women\u2019s university. The libretto is drawn from W.S. Gilbert\u2019s 1870 play (also called \u201cThe Princess\u201d), with new music by Arthur Sullivan. Sullivan\u2019s music is particularly well-regarded in this piece; his settings for the songs in Act Two are known as \u2018the string of pearls.\u2019 Principal roles include Princess Ida, Lady Psyche, and Lady Blanche for the women, and Prince Hilarion, King Hildebrand and King Gama for the men (among others).<\/p>\n

A lesser known work of the dynamic duo, Princess Ida is nonetheless brimming with those qualities we love in the works of Gilbert and Sullivan: humour, sweeping and intelligent lyrics, witty commentary, danger and commotion! In the end, love wins the day, and for more than just our royal couple. It\u2019s an exciting conclusion to our 24th season, so jump for joy and gaily bound down to the theatre to join us for Princess Ida!<\/p>\n

**Special Thanks to\u00a0<\/i>The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company<\/em> for permission to use their script revisions from their production in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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