Continuing the "nautical" theme of their highly successful HMS Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan's next comic opera appeared in 1879 and features a band of pirates and a company of policemen all of whom are totally unsuited to their calling.   We soon see that the boys in blue are not up to it, and the truth about the pirates comes out in due course.   But duty calls, and Frederic (a pirate by mistake, thanks to his nursemaid) is The Slave of Duty.   The complications which that causes are helped on by a bumbling Major General of many words and doubtful ancestry, together with his bevy of chattering daughters.   Sweet singing from Frederic and his Mabel as well as some famous patter songs and choruses give us the wonderful mixture of beauty and battiness that could only come from the greatest theatrical collaboration the world has ever known. We had much pleasure in presenting the show  in its 130th year and for the 8th time in our Society's history.

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