The Pirates of Penzance

About the show

Frederic celebrates the end of his apprenticeship to a band of kind-hearted pirates and falls in love with Mabel, daughter of Major-General Stanley. He learns that, because he was born on 29 February, his indenture binds him to the pirates until his twenty-first birthday, which is decades away. Frederic returns to the pirates, who capture Stanley and his daughters, but the Sergeant of Police makes them surrender in Queen Victoria’s name. Ruth reveals that the pirates are noblemen who have gone wrong, and the families reconcile.