Review: (Toronto) Princess Ida

G, S and the Princess
by Lucy Wells

MADS, the Music and Drama Society of St Anne’s Anglican church, has recently marked its 50^th anniversary of putting on Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. In celebration, it is currently presenting Princess Ida.  A light-hearted parody of feminism, women’s education, and Darwinian evolution (that is to say, three of the hottest topics of 1884, when the work was first staged), Princess Ida is classic G&S.