The Pirates of Penzance
21/06/1985
Brent Carver stars as the swashbuckling Pirate King in the famous Stratford Festival's rollicking production of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic that pits British bobbles against unlikely pirates on the Cornish coast. Sullivan regarded this operetta - a hit ever since its first production in New York in 1879 - as the best comedy he composed. He even said of his collaborator, "The libretto is ingenious, clever, wonderfully fun in parts and sometimes brilliant in dialogue - beautifully written for music, as is all Gilbert does." Indeed, audiences will find the music every bit a match for the lyrics, with the genius of the score lying in its parody of grand opera. Filmed in 1985 at the world-famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.
Movie Information
Jeff Hyslop
as Frederic
Brent Carver
as The Pirate King
Caralyn Tomlin
as Mabel
Douglas Chamberlain
as Maj. Gen. Stanley
Pat Galloway
as Ruth
Jim White
as Samuel
Stephen Beamish
as Sergeant of Police
Karen Skidmore
as Kate
Karen Wood
as Edith
Alison Grant
as Isabel
Wendy Abbott
as Blue Stocking
