The San Felipe
Title Company
Coming This Sunday - December 28rd, 2008, 3PM
1999 'Topsy-Turvy'
As
part of its revised roster of activities, the bookstore
(in it NEW
LOCATION) will be celebrating foreign, camp, edgy
and cult films with a regular screening of a movie each
Sunday afternoon at 3pm.
This Sunday's choice is 'Topsy-Turvy'.
After their production "Princess Ida" meets
with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between
Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their
friends and associates attempt to get the two to work
together again, which opens the way to one of their
greatest successes. Written by Steve Fenwick {scf@w0x0f.com}
Although a respectable hit, Gilbert and Sullivan's
"Princess Ida" is criticised for being routine.
Arthur Sullivan tends to agree, finding he has run out
of musical ideas for Gilbert's increasingly predictable
stories. He would rather be composing a full opera,
an idea that jeopardises not only the pair's relationship
but the future of the stage company that Richard D'Oyly
Carte has built around the comic operas. Then Mrs Gilbert
persuades her husband to take her to an exhibition of
Japanese life...
Free coffee and cookies are provided.