UTPIA LIMITED

Utopia, Limited is a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. The company produced Utopia, Limited and it was politely received, but the company members fully understood that the piece was substantially inferior to the other Gilbert and Sullivan operettas that the company had produced. The operetta’s dialogue is overwritten, it includes some poor music, contains unfinished plot lines and is simply too long. The production’s Stage Director, Zoe Kuester, and Wendy Evans, the Artistic Director, did what they could to make the piece performable by cutting some lines of the excessive dialogue and trimming a third verse from two or three songs. The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company was founded with the intention to produce all the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, including the lesser known and rarely performed Utopia, Limited and The Grand Duke.