The Yeomen of the Guard

Set during the reign of King Henry VIII, The Yeomen of the Guard (or The Merryman and His Maid), is Gilbert and Sullivan’s darkest and most emotionally engaging of the Savoy Operas.

The show takes place in the Tower of London where Colonel Fairfax is wrongly accused of sorcery and sentenced to death within the hour. He hatches a plan to avoid letting his estate fall into the hands of his scheming cousin (who accused him of sorcery), by secretly marrying Elsie Maynard, a strolling singer.

She agrees to be blindfolded during the ceremony and expects to be a wealthy widow upon Fairfax's imminent demise, leaving her free to marry her lover, the jester Jack Point. However, Fairfax miraculously escapes his fate and chaos ensues....

To find out how this story ends, you’ll have to come and see our show!