The North Toronto Players is a
theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
group, founded in 1966 as the St. Timothy Players. Their productions are staged at Papermill Theatre, at historic
Todmorden Mills
Todmorden Mills was a small settlement located in the Don River valley in Toronto, Ontario. It started out as a lumber mill in the 1790s. Originally known as "Don Mills", it grew into a small industrial complex and village before becoming part of ...
on Pottery Road in East York, Toronto.
Productions
While they are mostly known for their
Gilbert & Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan was a Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), who jointly created fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which ''H.M.S. Pina ...
work,
the Company also creates their own productions. Among these is ''H.M.S. Starship Pinafore: The Next Generation'', a ''
Star Trek'' adaptation of two famous
Gilbert and Sullivan operettas (''
HMS Pinafore
''H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor'' is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which ...
'' and ''
Trial by Jury
A jury trial, or trial by jury, is a legal proceeding in which a jury makes a decision or findings of fact. It is distinguished from a bench trial in which a judge or panel of judges makes all decisions.
Jury trials are used in a significan ...
'').
References
* ''HMS Starship Pinafore : The Next Generation'' playbill, Feb.-March, 2004 (Toronto).
External links
North Toronto Players
Theatre companies in Toronto
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