A More Humane Mikado

The Mikado (1987).

[@trinitymplayers]

The actor was apparently channeling the late comic actor Robert Morley, complete with eyebrows.

[@2010Wilde]

He looks like a rejected Monty Python character.

[@maggiesmith2600]

The one who eats the wafer-thin mint and explodes.

[@voraciousreader3341]

“Fetch me a bucket....” It’s Mr. Creosote, kids! Run and fetch some buckets!!

[@TomHuston43]

@@maggiesmith2600 ...... jones and cleese?

[@trionabyrne217]

The mikado of Japan looks great in the 1920s British style.

[@thomashogan16]

Perfectly adapted. Great enunciation and orchestration. I love this!

[@brunomaples]

Mans out here looking like a one piece character

[@Xerxes2005]

There is something of Père Ubu in that Mikado.

[@goldenhunter1502]

OH SHIT IT'S MR CREASO!

[@bettyottman1718]

He looks like Mr Creosote, But He's Heart of Gold.

[@Afalstein]

Fascinating idea, though I wish they'd done a bit better on the costume.

[@aretea.666]

I totally agree.

[@Nina5144]

Yes I totally agree. The costumes are dreadful. You cant beat the original Japanese costumes and make up

[@redmondthealien7840]

In all fairnes, i belive it was done so copies of it could be sold in japan.

[@ownerfate]

Does anyone know where I can find the lyrics for the 1928 version of this... I wanna just verify one line of the opera, from the record i have

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

Yes, it was origanily "Is blacked like a (N word) and painted with permanent walnut juice". I get why they changed the N word, but not why they changed walnut to Blackberry.

[@maggiesmith2600]

Bloody Jonathan Miller and his artsy-fartsy directing. Who wants The Mikado without kimonos ?

[@borisvandruff7532]

maggie smith Easily offended white people pretending to advocate for Asians. My grandmother was Japanese and would have found it hilarious.

[@jessebaker2769]

Because it's a reconstruction. G&S had to set the story in Japan because the play took a huge piss on corruption in Britain and the upper class and would have been shut down. That way the British censors would let it see the light of day as this was an era where ANYTHING that upset the early 1900s SJW types in Britain was squashed and legally banned. Miller simply took the source material and put it in the setting that G&S originally intended for it and made it work too.

[@lordwunglerbeckett]

Short answer? I do

[@Nupetiet]

@@jessebaker2769 So what you're saying is that Gilbert and Sullivan _were_ the SJWs

[@harrietgate]

Nothing wrong with the Mikado’s voice, but I dislike him portrayed as an obese giant.

[@voraciousreader3341]

I don’t understand the point of The Mikado in Edwardian England, or whatever era this is supposed to be from. It’s a horrible choice, bc a Mikado never, EVER looked like _THAT._ There’s no way of getting around the fact that the whole shebang is about a time and place IN JAPAN. Hence, this has absolutely no point, unless they’re doing an homage to Mr. Creosote, which is only mildly amusing.

[@brunomaples]

Imagine thinking the Mikado was meant to be literally about Japan 🤡

[@pathuey7194]

When the Japanese ambassador came to London and the Mikado was being shown, he wanted to see it. Of course everyone was nervous that he would be offended. But he wasn't. He said the show had nothing at all to do with Japan.

[@carolinian2009]

@@pathuey7194 Right? It's like the show really is about England and not Japan. :/

[@anamarvelo]

obvious troll is obvious a play that parodies small town life in england, but is set in japan to hide hte parody