…a new Gilbert and Sullivan production that actually looked new and sounded new.

…each number showed the touch of a masterly stylist and wizard of operatic parody whose every inspiration was seized by the singers, by their resourceful director and designer Peter Mulloy.

As a lampoon of Oscar Wilde - fortuitously coinciding with a production of The Importance of Being Earnest elsewhere in Edinburgh - the performance scored all its points, from its chorus of swooning maidens to Jill Pert's grotesque contralto soliloquy with cello in Act Two. …this production will surely have the long run which, on current evidence, it deserves.