LOVERLY The most insidiously satirical moment in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore comes when a lowly sailor and his captain must instantly switch places when we learn that the latter was born nobly and not nastily. (Nautical expertise be damned; birth will out!) Thanks to George Bernard Shaw's brilliant book, the same subversion occurs throughout […]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:42PM on June 6, 2016