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Patience (Bunthorne's Bride)

W. S. Gilbert

Length
1 h 36 min
Chapters
2
Language
English
Genre
Comedy
First published
1911

A comic operetta which is a satire on the themes of fashion and pretension and hero-worship. Bunthorne is a poet who pretends to be highly "idealised" in order to impress the ladies. They all worship him, except for Patience, the dairy maid, who is the only one he loves. However, his grand plan goes awry with the arrival of Grosvenor who is more idealised and more poetical then he is. The ladies all flock after Grosvenor instead, until Bunthorne curses him with poor fashion sense and stoutness! But will the curse bring Bunthorne his Patience? (Summary by Beth Thomas)

Cast:

Reginald Bunthorne: Todd

Archibald Grosvenor: Rob Board

Colonel Calverley: Joseph Tabler

Major Murgatroyd: bala

Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable: Alan Mapstone

Patience: Patti Cunningham

The Lady Angela: Amanda Friday

The Lady Jane: Shakira Searle

The Lady Saphir: Libby Gohn

The Lady Ella: Lydia

Lady: Elizabeth Klett

Dragoon: Hamlet

Narrator and Chorus: Beth Thomas

Audio edited by Todd and Kimberly Krause

Chapters

From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org), the text (opens archive.org), all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org).