Foggerty's Fairy

<p class=ql-align-justify><em>'Take care. The consequences of an act are often much more numerous and important than people have any idea of.'</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Today W.S. Gilbert is best known for the comic operas he produced in collaboration with Arthur Sullivan a creative partnership that diverged over the supernatural. Unlike Sullivan Gilbert was a great fan of fairy tales and <em>Foggerty's Fairy</em> one of his most unjustly neglected plays is a brilliant farcical comedy that hinges on the wish-granting of a fairy.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Loosely based on his short story 'The Story of a Twelfth Cake' <em>Foggerty's Fairy</em> considers the dangers of playing with the past. Trying to shore up his relationship a man enlists a fairy's help to make a few tweaks in his past - he soon realises however these small changes have made great waves through time and his present becomes unbearable.</p><p><br></p>