H.M.S. Pinafore

H.M.S. Pinafore is a comic opera in two acts by Gilbert and Sullivan [].

(Or H.M.S. Pinafore, or The Lass That Loved a Sailor) is a 1878 comic opera in two acts by Gilbert and Sullivan [1].

The original text

The play opened at the Opera Comique, London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances.

Performance history in South Africa

1903: Performed in South Africa by the visiting D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as part of their repertoire of Gilbert and Sullivan works, presented over the course of two seasons.

Staged by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society in 1935, 1951 and 1979.

Staged by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society in 1953, 1956, 1966, 1973, 1978, 1984, 1992 and 2009.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore

D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 389-390, 410-411,

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