Welcome to the website of the Gilbert & Sullivan Society (Torbay Branch).

We would like to thank all those who came to the Supper Concert that took place at the Berry Head Hotel on 2nd March 2012. Further details of future concerts can be found on our concerts page.

Our next major production will be The Mikado at the Little Theatre, Torquay during the first week of July 2012. For further details, please click here.

The Society was founded in 1973, mainly as an appreciation Society. Since then, however, it has performed all the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan and also hold regular concerts at various venues throughout South Devon but mainly in the sumptuous surroundings of the Ballroom at Oldway Mansion in Paignton. The main production each year up until 2002 was held in the Palace Theatre in Paignton but since 2003 has been staged at the Little Theatre.

During its 36 year history the Society has achieved a number of notable successes. In 1978 it achieved world-wide renown when it sung all 13 of the published G&S operas in succession; a feat it repeated in 1998. The Society also had the distinction of staging Pirates on the 100th anniversary of its first production in the very theatre where it was first performed (alas now gone). Details of these and other activities of the Society can be found on this site. Information as to how to join the Society can be found here.

We also have a couple of social events each year and our Christmas Party in 2011 was a superb Barn Dance that was great fun and that got even our most reluctant dancers onto their feet!