Casting announced for Sasha Regan’s All-Male THE MIKADO at Wilton’s Music Hall and on tour

Photo credit: Mark Senior

Casting has been announced for Sasha Regan’s All-Male The Mikado, which returns to Wilton’s Music Hall from 7 June-1 July before visiting visit Winchester, Bath and Truro.

The cast includes Declan Egan as Bertie Hugh, Sam Kipling as Miss Violet Plumb, Lewis Kennedy as Mikado, David McKechnie as Mr Cocoa, George Dawes as Wilfred Lush, Aidan Nightingale as Albert Barr, Owen Clayton as Lily Tring, Richard Russell Edwards as Hebe Flo, and Christopher Hewitt as Kitty Shaw, with an ensemble featuring Harry Cooper-Millar, Oliver Bradley-Taylor, Patrick Cook, Struan Davidson, Franciso Gomes, Elliot Akeister, Shane Antony-Whitely.

One of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most famous operettas, featuring the songs ‘A Wand’ring Minstrel I’, ‘Behold the Lord High Executioner’ and ‘Three Little Maids From School Are We’, The Mikado is traditionally set in Japan. But this vibrant production successfully pokes playful fun at British politics and institutions by  transposing the crazy storyline to an all-boys school in 1950s England. A school camping trip is visiting the far away land of Titipu - a place where flirting is banned on pain of death and where tailors can become Lord High Executioners but cannot cut off another’s head, until they have cut off their own!

Regan’s idea to transform these much-loved classics into all-male productions stems from her own experience performing Gilbert and Sullivan at a single-sex school. Her shows are renowned for playing on the unique humour it creates.

The production is designed by Ryan Dawson Laight, with choreography by Adam Haigh, and casting by Adam Brahm.

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