PATIENCE

written by Gilbert & Sullivan

directed by Michael Blum
season sponsor: Valerie Lash

Mar 05 - 28, 2027

Patience is a comic operetta by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan that satirizes the Victorian obsession with aestheticism, celebrity, and fashionable trends. The story follows the simple milkmaid Patience, who becomes caught between two rival poets while a group of lovestruck maidens and neglected soldiers compete for affection and attention. Through mistaken ideas about love and self-sacrifice, the operetta humorously exposes vanity, pretension, and the tendency to follow popular fads.