Theatre & Opera Director, Creative Producer, Writer
H. M. S Pinafore
Arthur Sullivan & W. S. Gilbert.
Director: Kate Gaul
Original Music Director: Zara Stanton
Music Director: Antonio Fernandez
Choreographer: Ash Bee
Production Designer: Melanie Liertz
Lighting Designer: Becky Russell
Sound Designer: Nate Edmondson
Cast
Josef Ber
Thomas Campbell
Tobias Cole
Hannah Greenshields
Sean Hall
Bobbie-Jean Henning
Elora Ledger
Dominic Lui
Billie Palin
Zachary Selmes
Daniel Vershuer
Original Production included Katherine Allen, Jermaine Chau, Rory O’Keefe
Hayes Theatre 2019
Regional NSW Tour 2020
Sydney Festival 2021
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“(Gaul’s) take on the show manages to encompass … the gentle boundary-pushing of the original text, our local tradition of sending up the classics, and the meta-textual, pop-culture referential riffing... And she does it all through a confident, unapologetically queer lens.
Why stage H.M.S PINAFORE at the end of 2019? Because it can be a celebration of living outside your expected social role. It can be a queer party. It can be funny and sweet, and clever." ★★★★ TIME OUT
"Under director Kate Gaul’s command, Gilbert and Sullivan's classic finds new vigour as genderfuck carnival.
If the class plot is unrelatable, the norm-busting use of gender scrapes off the HMS PINAFORE’s barnacles. With wit, style, and thrill, this production is relentlessly entertaining. "Love can level ranks” - and this revel ranks high. ★★★★ CITY ROCK JESTER
“The show is bursting with talent and expertise and basically it’s all joy and effervescence for the rest of the voyage.” ★★★★ STAGE NOISE
“Turning the topsy-turvy of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s 1878 operetta inside out, this saucy staging of H.M.S. PINAFORE is a delight from bowsprit to the sternpost.” ★★★★ AUDREY JOURNAL
“Kate Gaul reinvigorates the comic operetta for an audience today, giving it a fabulous, fresh spin with her gloriously camp, glittery, cross-gender production.” ★★★★ LIMELIGHT
Production Photography: Claire Hawley
Hero Image: Harvey House Productions
Model: Lara Lightfoot
Hair & Makeup: Natalia Ladyko