The Mikado

Synopsis

Jonathan Miller set his well-known production of The Mikado, staged for the English National Opera, in a British seaside resort of the 1920s. The result, complete with a chorus of gentlemen of Japan as cartoon-like British peers, emphatically underscores the Englishness of the satire. The occasional non sequiturs, like a bunch of gentry dressed for Ascot and singing in Japanese, are loonily fun, and no more absurd than the fantasyland Japan that Gilbert and Sullivan invented. The time frame, though, seems little more than an excuse for a smart black-and-white production design.

Main Cast

Eric Idle

Ko-Ko

Age : 81 | Popularity : 6%

Lesley Garrett

Yum-Yum

Age : 69 | Popularity : 3%

Bonaventura Bottone

Nanki-Poo

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Richard Van Allan

Pooh-Bah

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Felicity Palmer

Katisha

Age : 80 | Popularity : 4%

Richard Angas

The Mikado of Japan

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Susan Bullock

Peep-Bo

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Ethna Robinson

Pitti-Sing

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Music	Arthur Sullivan
Production	Producer	Jonathan Miller
Directing	Stage Director	Jonathan Miller
	Director	Peter Robinson John Michael Phillips
Writing	Writer	W.S. Gilbert
Department	Role	Name

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