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

The Society was founded in 1973, mainly as an appreciation Society. Since then, however, it has performed all the operettas 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 in Torquay.

During its 33 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 operettas 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.

Following the success of the recent production of The Pirates of Penzance, the Society is delighted to announce three further concerts in 2008. Please see the concerts page for further details.