Union theatre, LondonThis is the third all-male version of Gilbert and Sullivan that Sasha Regan has directed at this tiny Southwark theatre. But, while the result is as "blithe and gay" as the dairymaid heroine herself, it also leaves me feeling that the single-sex approach blunts the satirical edge of this strange piece.Writing in 1881, Gilbert was explicitly lampooning Wilde and the apostles of the new aesthetic m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PM on February 20, 2012