THE MIKADO

Opera della Luna on tour : 1999 onwards (still in repertory)
Buxton Festival 2003 /2004

2025 cast:

The Mikado of Japan STEVE WATTS
Nanki-Poo (his son) ROBERT FORREST
Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, now Lord High Executioner MATTHEW SCOTT CLARK
Pooh Bah, Lord High Everything Else CARL SANDERSON
Pish Tush, Ko-Ko’s foreman STEVE WATTS
Yum Yum KELLI ANN MASTERSON
Pitti Sing LYNSEY DOCHERTY
Peep Bo LOUISE CRANE
Katisha, an elderly lady in love with Nanki-Poo LOUISE CRANE


Original cast:

Ko-Ko JOHN BARR
Pooh-Bah GRAHAM HOADLY
Pish- Tush/The Mikado ASHLEY THORBURN
Nanki-Poo PAUL DARNELL
Yum-Yum REBECCA KNIGHT
Pitti-Sing CLAIRE MASSIE
Peep-Bo/Katisha LOUISE CRANE

Designer  GABRIELLA CSANYI-WILLS


Other casts:

Ko-Ko SIMON BUTTERISS
Pooh-Bah ROBERT TRAYNOR, MARTIN GEORGE, BRUCE GRAHAM, GRAHAM STONE
Pish- Tush/The Mikado JOHN GRIFFITHS, IAN BELSEY
Nanki-Poo ANDY MORTON, TIM WALTON, MICHAEL XAVIER, TOM ASHTON, JAMES HUTCHINSON, ANDREW THWAITE
Yum-Yum PAMELA HAY, HELEN FRENCH
Pitti-Sing CATHERINE MIKIC, BARBARA KING, KAREN ENGLAND, VICTORIA BYRON, ABIGAIL IVESON
Peep-Bo/Katisha EMMA ODELL, VICTORIA BYRON

“What matters is the performance, and in Jeff Clarke’s vivacious production, its delightful”
FINANCIAL TIMES

”Clarke’s brilliance in this and other similar shows reveals an anomalous ability to maintain a broad reverence for the material while at the same time revelling in its avant la letter surrealism and meta-theatrical moment. The novel setting the world of high fashion worked a treat: Gabreialla Csanyi-Wills designs – in particular her outrageous costumes – added to the surreality of the whole.”

GEORGE HALL  Opera

”This was a great reminder of where they whole marvellous G&S revival started, from Clarke’s own orchestrations to the characters whose ancestry in Eighties and Nineties telly is a nostalgia trip in itself.”

ROBERT THICKNESSE Opera Now