Sunday 21, March 2010 by Isla MacFarlane
Family matters
At around the same time Bram Stoker was penning Dracula to strike terror into the hearts of Victorian consumers, the curtain was rising on one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most obscure operettas. In Utopia Limited, an English company promoter arrives in the exotic South Sea island of Utopia and sets about turning the inhabitants into companies, to the extent that all individuals, even babies, come complete with company prospectuses. Such was the fear ignited by public, or joint-stock, companies in their early days.
