Pirates of Penzance

Devon solicitor takes command on stage

Authored by Sharon Goble
Posted: Mon, 10/05/2015 - 12:28pm

A partner of Honiton-based law firm Beviss & Beckingsale is preparing to assume command on stage, playing the Major General in a new production of “The Pirates of Penzance” starting in Exeter this week.

Solicitor Mark Ollier, who lives in Exeter, is reprising the role he’s played twice before, in Seaton for the Testudo Players and in Sidmouth for the town’s Arts Club Operatic Society.

Mark says: “Although I’m a lawyer by day, I love performing to an audience and strutting my stuff on stage. In this role I get to sing the well-known patter song "I am the very model...

The Pirates of Penzance

Event Date: 
05/06/2015 - 7:30pm to 06/06/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott

Exeter Nothcott welcome Sasha Regan’s all male company back to Exeter, following their much lauded debut visit in 2014 with the inventive and fun-filled HMS Pinafore.

For their return visit, the company present the award winning and exquisitely funny new take on the much-loved classic Pirates of Penzance. The show was a huge critical and popular hit during its London run and proved just as successful in Australia when it landed in Cate Blanchett’s Sydney Theatre.

The tale of a child apprenticed to a band of tender hearted, orphaned pirates was an immediate triumph for...

The Pirates of Penzance

Event Date: 
31/08/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Eggesford Airfield, Chulmleigh

The charity Send a Cow is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Since it began in a Lapford farmhouse all those years ago over one million people in Africa have been helped to work their way out of poverty for good.

As part of the celebrations, professional touring opera company, Opera Anywhere, are presenting a performance of The Pirates of Penzance, in the hangar at Eggesford Airfield, near Chulmleigh with a chorus drawn from the surrounding area.

It should be a really good evening and you are invited to bring a picnic from 5.30pm so you can enjoy the fabulous views from the...

Pirates of Penzance on at the Northcott this week

Following the success of Patience in March 2012, Exeter University Gilbert and Sullivan Society return to celebrate their 45th year with one of the most famous comic operas of all time, The Pirates of Penzance .

Follow the thrilling story of young Frederic, who has to remain faithful to the pirate trade until his 21st birthday. However, he longs to pursue his dreams elsewhere and find true love.

The pirates find a flaw in his contract and all becomes more complicated than Frederic could have ever imagined...

With fantastically famous music, delicious humour and the...

Comic opera The Pirates of Penzance at Exeter Northcott

Event Date: 
12/02/2013 - 7:30pm to 16/02/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Following the success of Patience in March 2012, Exeter University Gilbert and Sullivan Society return to celebrate their 45th year with one of the most famous comic operas of all time, The Pirates of Penzance.

Follow the thrilling story of young Frederic, who has to remain faithful to the pirate trade until his 21st birthday.

However, he longs to pursue his dreams elsewhere and find true love.The pirates find a flaw in his contract and all becomes more complicated than Frederic could have ever imagined...

With fantastically famous music, delicious humour and the...

Exeter University Gilbert & Sullivan Society: The Pirates of Penzance

Event Date: 
12/02/2013 - 7:30pm to 16/02/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Following the success of Patience in March 2012, Exeter University Gilbert and Sullivan Society return to celebrate their 45th year with one of the most famous comic operas of all time, The Pirates of Penzance.

Follow the thrilling story of young Frederic, who has to remain faithful to the pirate trade until his 21st birthday.

However, he longs to pursue his dreams elsewhere and find true love.The pirates find a flaw in his contract and all becomes more complicated than Frederic could have ever imagined...

With fantastically famous music, delicious humour and the...