Show Plot Ruddigore

Authors: W. S. Gilbert (words) and Arthur Sullivan (music)

Time Period: Early 19th century (around 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars)

Setting: 

• Act I Setting: The small, sunny fishing village of Rederring in Cornwall, England.
• Act II Setting: The dark and spooky picture gallery inside Ruddigore Castle
  

Summary:

Ruddigore, or The Witch's Curse is a comic operetta that satirizes Victorian melodrama and ghost stories. The premise of the story is that centuries ago a wicked ancestor of the Murgatroyd family abused a witch. She cursed the family so that every lord of Ruddigore in every generation must commit a crime every single day or die in horrible agony.