Review of The Pirates Of Penzance performed by the Northampton Gilbert & Sullivan Group at Royal & Derngate (Royal), Northampton
I did a little research unusually before seeing this version of The Pirates of Penzance from the Northampton Gilbert & Sullivan Group, and one thing I found was the over eight-minute Overture. Would we be presented with the full deal at the start of this production, I wondered? As it turned out, yes we were, thankfully I am not afraid of the dark. I did try to imagine though what the audience of Shrek , on next door this week, would have thought, being faced with this. How times have changed. The Pirates of Penzance is if you have ever seen a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta before, more of the same. They don't really vary, I have learnt from my previous three viewings, the scenery changes, but it all remains the whimsical story of abject silliness. This time featuring pirates, in Penzance, and the many daughters of a modern Major General. Pirates is perhaps the most well known of Gilbert & Sullivan's works, and on the evidence of this, by far the most acce...