Plot
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.
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Cast
Jeff Hyslop
Frederic
Brent Carver
The Pirate King
Caralyn Tomlin
Mabel
Douglas Chamberlain
Maj. Gen. Stanley
Pat Galloway
Ruth
Jim White
Samuel
Stephen Beamish
Sergeant of Police
Karen Skidmore
Kate
Karen Wood
Edith
Alison Grant
Isabel
Wendy Abbott
Blue Stocking
