Pretentious, phony "artistes"? Guess what, it's nothing new! Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience pokes fun at the aesthetic movement that minced over England in the late 19th century, but it's sure to make you laugh as long as there are self-serving pseudo-poets in the world... and gullible girls to worship them.
- Venue: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Novellus Theater
- Date: Fri January 15, 2010 8:00pm
- City: San Francisco
- Price Range: $11-45
- Tickets: 415-978-2787
Sat January 16, 2010 2:00pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Novellus Theater
Sat January 16, 2010 8:00pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Novellus Theater
Sun January 17, 2010 2:00pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Novellus Theater
Fri January 29, 2010 8:00pm
Lesher Center for the Arts, Hofmann Theater
Sat January 30, 2010 2:00pm
Lesher Center for the Arts, Hofmann Theater
Sat January 30, 2010 8:00pm
Lesher Center for the Arts, Hofmann Theater
Sun January 31, 2010 2:00pm
Lesher Center for the Arts, Hofmann Theater
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Program
Gilbert & Sullivan
Patience
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January 7, 2010
One of the best one-line put-downs of Romantic poetic excess comes from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. “Do you yearn?” the poet Bunthorne asks the dairy maid. “I yearn my living,” she replies. Take that, aesthetes.
Patience is as funny as any of the other great G&S collaborations, but unlike the heavy hitters in the canon (The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance), it really needs to be in the hands of actors who can do that comedy-of-manners style while trilling an intricate G&S score.
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