The Ewell Don Quartette

The Fairy's Dilemma The Fairy's Dilemma Play by W. S. Gilbert Harlequin and the Fairy's Dilemma, retitled The Fairy's Dilemma shortly after the play opened, is a play in two acts by W. S. Gilbert that parodies the harlequinade that concluded 19th-century pantomimes. Jessie Bateman as the Fairy It was produced at the Garrick Theatre by Arthur Bourchier, lessee of the theatre, on 3 May 1904 and ran for 90 performances, closing on 22 July 1904. The work was Gilbert's last full-length play. Background The Fairy's Dilemma, "an original domestic pantomime in two acts",[1] was W. S. Gilbert's first play produced since The Fortune Hunter in 1897. He had announced a retirement from the theatre after the poor reception of…

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