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The Great Yarmouth Gilbert & Sullivan Society is a registered charity and is also a member of NODA, the National Operatic and Dramatic Association, who are represented locally by NODA East.
The History
If you want to know more about the history of the Society a book called ‘How it all Started’ by Bernard Gooch, a co-founder of the Society, will tell you all about it. It covers the first 25 years of the Society’s history.
Today
We are keen to move Gilbert & Sullivan into the 21st Century.
This may seem strange for a body of work that was written in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, but we believe the work still has value.
Most of all Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operettas are fun, stories that are sometimes quite surreal and clever lyrics - all supported by the most amazing music.
They have comedy and they have satire, and much about them still has relevance today.
It is probably true that without the works of Gilbert & Sullivan, with its roots in true opera and the popular music hall, much of what we enjoy in the musical theatre would not have developed. It is entertainment that insists that popular art can still be of high quality.
We want modern audiences to know that the Music of Gilbert & Sullivan still has a lot to offer.
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