Engaged December 2, 2010

A topsy-turvy farce in three acts, 'Engaged' illustrates W.S. Gilbert's gift for absurdly complicated plots, wildly comic dialogue and sharp, exuberant social criticism. In this almost-forgotten masterpiece, one-half of the immortal team Gilbert and Sullivan takes great delight in skewering every pretension affecting money-minded people who take on the burden of falling in love.