1996 - Utopia

Utopia was the penultimate Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta, and was originally titled Utopia Ltd.  It was set on a South Sea Island, where the inhabitants believe that all that is English is good, so they duly model all their organisations on the English equivalents.  All is so good, until some real English people (the Flowers of Progress) arrive ...

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Julian Illman as Phantis and Alan Heffer as Scaphio

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Tracy Tipple and Ros Atkins as Nekaya and Kalyba and Phil Holmes and Brian Scollick as Flowers of Progress

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Kathryn Marshall as Lady Sophy and Doug Birchall as King Paramount

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Eric Southgate as Captain Fitzbattleaxe and Alaine Weide as Princess Zara