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Patience Is Rewarding!
Event Date: 30/09/2016, 08:00 pm

Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Sydney presents the long-awaited return of Patience: a timeless and ...

Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Sydney presents the long-awaited return of Patience: a timeless and hilarious
musical satire on fame, fandom, art and pretension. With a healthy dose of romance!

And it all happens at Shore School in North Sydney from 30 Sept to 8 October, with preview performances in Narrabeen and Bundanoon (18 and 24 Sept respectively).

Patience may be a virtue, but in this brilliant comedy of lovesick fans, phony pop idols and macho men,
Patience is also a milkmaid – a kind, straightforward country girl who is happy to call a spade a spade.

When the opera opens, twenty lovesick women are refusing the attentions of their macho soldier boyfriend ds in favour of the pretentious,
trendy poet Bunthorne (a wicked parody of Oscar Wilde, Swinburne and other turn-of-the-20th-century ‘aesthetic poets’).

Bunthorne, in love with the simple dairymaid Patience, reveals to her that he is a fraud; however, her temptation (against her better judgement) to fall in love - as everyone else seems to be- is interrupted by the timely arrival of a rival poet, Grosvenor – who turns out to be her childhood sweetheart!

All the ladies fall for him – of course (much to the men’s ) - and all hell breaks loose as the curtain falls on Act 1. With everyone apparently in love with the wrong person, the second act offers much confusion, hilarity – and romance.
Ultimately, it is selflessness – as modelled by Patience – that unknots the complications.
Pretence is renounced and true love found by all – that is all except Bunthorne himself. Everyone is matched up… but “nobody is Bunthorne’s bride!”

One of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular operettas,
Patience ran to almost 600 straight performances on the West End, only rivalled among their 16 Savoy Operas by The Mikado.
Its brilliant satire of insane pop fandom, pretentiousness in art, machismo and the trendy love of all things pastoral is as cutting and apt today as ever!


Location:
Smith Auditorium, Shore School, William Street,
North Sydney New South Wales,2060