Ruddigore or The Witch's Curse
FIVE PERFORMANCES ONLY!ALEXANDER THEATRE,
MONASH UNIVERSITY
APRIL 21, 27 28 at 8.00 PM
APRIL 21, 28 at 2.00 PM
BOOK on 03 9905 1111 (M-F 9:30-4:30) Or go to www.monash.edu.au/mapa
A love story full of ghosts and curses, Ruddigore is Gilbert and Sullivan’s take on Victorian melodrama, full of great music and ingenious Gilbertian wit. It is set around 1804. We have Sir Despard the obligatory villain, Robin Oakapple the hero, Rose Maybud the heroine, and a number of other characters to add life to the plot. But all is not as it seems: the story centres around an incongruous curse placed on the first baronet of Ruddigore, Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, and which is so powerful that it can transcend the normal boundaries of time and perpetuate itself ad infinitum down through all the direct inheritors of the title. Gilbert provides his usual twist at the end to ensure a satisfactory resolution to the story.
BRETT O'MEARA, MICHELLE McCARTHY, MICHAEL PETRUCELLI, JENNIFER WAKEFIELD, RENN WORTLEY, NICKY WORTLEY, NAOMI ABSOLOM, ANDREW McGRAIL, ANNA CASTLE, CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
DIRECTED BY RON PIDCOCK
MUSICAL DIRECTION BY JOHN FERGUSON
CHORUS DIRECTION BY STEPHANIE GIBSON
Tickets $42 full $38 concession $20 child
Groups of 20+ $38 Child free with full-paying adult on first Saturday matinee.

