Dr Sullivan and Mr Gilbert (play)
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Dr Sullivan and Mr Gilbert is a play written by Christopher Webber
, on commission from Mull Theatre in Scotland, with music by Arthur Sullivan
. It is a fantasy retelling of the Gilbert and Sullivan
story, in which images and characters from Lewis Carroll
's Alice in Wonderland are superimposed onto familiar figures from the Savoy Operas.
The play was performed at Mull Theatre throughout July, August and September 1993. It was revived in 1998 at Glasgow Citizens' Theatre and then toured in Scotland.
The play was published in 1999 by Couthurst Press (ISBN 1-902819-00-4).
Christopher Webber
Christopher Webber is an English actor, dramatist, theatre director, writer and music critic.-Biography :Webber was born in Cheshire and educated at The Manchester Grammar School and the University of Kent at Canterbury...
, on commission from Mull Theatre in Scotland, with music by Arthur Sullivan
Arthur Sullivan
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...
. It is a fantasy retelling of the Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan . The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S...
story, in which images and characters from Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
's Alice in Wonderland are superimposed onto familiar figures from the Savoy Operas.
The play was performed at Mull Theatre throughout July, August and September 1993. It was revived in 1998 at Glasgow Citizens' Theatre and then toured in Scotland.
The play was published in 1999 by Couthurst Press (ISBN 1-902819-00-4).