Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company

One of Gilbert & Sullivan's more serious operas, which revolves around the impending execution of Colonel Fairfax.

Phoebe's father, who has twice saved Fairfax's life, devises a plan to disguise him as a yeoman to help him escape. Meanwhile, the jester arrives with his sweetheart Elsie, and both are caught up in the escape plans with results unlike any other Gilbert & Sullivan opera.