About the Players
Formed on 29 February 1988, the MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players is a volunteer group of students and non-students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) that performs the works of Sir William S. Gilbert and/or Sir Arthur Sullivan. MITG&SP occasionally performs other works, usually with some connection to Gilbert and Sullivan or the Victorian era.
Iolanthe
Performances of our spring 2013 production of Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri will take place the first two weekends of May 2013.
In Gilbert and Sullivan's "fairy opera", the House of Lords is lampooned as a bastion of the ineffective, privileged and dim-witted. The political party system and other institutions also come in for a dose of satire. Both Gilbert and Sullivan were at the height of their creative powers in 1882, and many people feel that Iolanthe, their seventh work together, is the most perfect of their collaborations.
More information about the show can be found in the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive.
MIT STUDENT SPECIAL
Tickets are FREE Thursday!
Details about performance times and location are available on our production page.
