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G&S always loved taking a pop at the establishment. The law, the army and the navy were all on the receiving end of W S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's unfailing eye for the ridiculous and, in Iolanthe, it's the turn of the House of Lords. In fact, you don't see any noble peers until almost halfway through the first act when a massive steam locomotive bursts through the backdrop bringing the 19th century into the previously bucolic scene set a century earlier where the pastoral lovers, albeit dressed in Toile de Jouy from head to foot, are simple country folk. Or are they? Phyllis is apparently an Arcadian shepherdess but is actually a ward of court and needs the permission of the Lord Chancellor to marry Strephon who is also not as he seems. Though Phyllis does not know this, he is actually half fairy, his mother, Iolanthe (a sparkling Samantha Price), having broken fairy law by marrying a mortal. After 25 years of banishment, Iolanthe is allowed back to her fairy tri
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