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2025
Our next production- 9 AprilHMS Pinafore
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12 April
MatineeHMS Pinafore
Did you know?
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"Old fashioned entertainment - love, songs and laughter" or so said journalist Andrew Stead of this production in the Batley News.
Click to see the full articleAs on all but one of the previous productions, this was a double bill with "HMS Pinafore".
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"Trial By Jury"is set in a court of law, the original setting being based by Gilbert on the Clerkenwell Court in which he had appeared during his early, brief and unremunerative career as a lawyer.
The bare bones for Trial appeared in the 11th April 1868 edition of Fun, a magazine to which Gilbert was a regular contributor. In 1875, Richard D'Oyly Carte commissioned Gilbert & Sullivan to produce a short opera. By then, Gilbert had turned the original idea into a full-scale libretto which proved the perfect basis for Sullivan's music.
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From Gilbert's Bab Ballads:
The Judges song
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Producer/Director : David Fletcher
Musical Director : David Wilkinson
Cast
| The Learned Judge : | Robert Thurman |
| Counsel for the Plaintiff : | Alison Sowerby |
| The Defendant : | Ian Townend |
| Foreman of the Jury : | Keith Horner |
| Usher : | David Atkinson |
| The Associate : | Allen Haigh |
| The Plaintiff : | Stephanie Roe |
| Bridesmaids : | Verity Bird, Louise Halliwell, Judith Gill, Sue Ralph, Rachel Roe, Tracey Spencer |
GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY:
Neil Bird, Graham Harris, David Hirst, Ian Castle, Paul Child, Andrew James, Stephen Roe, Chris Sowerby, Ian Stringer
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC GALLERY :
Joan Baldwin, Margaret Hansen, Karen Morton, Carol Parkinson, Ruth Trout, Marie Bullock, Janice Child, Sally Roberts, Debbie Stringer, Kathryn Thurman
