The Mikado
freeFall Theatre freeFall Studio Theatre St. Petersburg, FL
Lighting design for the 2014 production of The Mikado at freeFall Theatre, directed by Eric Davis.
- Music
- Arthur Sullivan
- Libretto
- W.S. Gilbert
- Director
- Eric Davis
- Lighting Designer
- Mike Wood
About the Show
Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 comic opera is set in the imaginary Japanese town of Titipu. Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, has fled in disguise to avoid marrying a much older suitor and to find his beloved Yum-Yum, who is the ward of Ko-Ko, the lord high executioner, and has been betrothed to Ko-Ko against her will. As beheadings, betrothals, and reversals stack up, the Mikado himself arrives to sort matters out. Like much of Gilbert and Sullivan's work, the show satirizes Victorian Britain's politics and aristocracy, cloaking its criticism behind a charming story set in an imagined exotic locale.
Source: Britannica