SASHA Regan's all-male version of Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S Pinafore is due to sail into the Theatre Royal this month, with tickets now on sale.

Following a sell-out run at Wilton's Music Hall in London, where it received reviews and two Off-West End award nominations for Best Opera Production and Best Performance in an Opera Production.

The Burly Sailors invite you to join them below deck on board a World War II battleship in this inventive reimagining of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s fourth collaboration and first international blockbuster: H.M.S. Pinafore, or "The Lass That Loved a Sailor"

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The comic operetta deals with the age-old conundrum of love between social classes, where the captain’s daughter, Josephine, is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, when she falls for lower class sailor Ralph Rackstraw, but the captain wishes for her to marry the upstanding sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. Will Josephine follow her heart or honour her father’s wish?

The show will run from the Theatre Royal, where they will dock from Thursday, April 21 until Wednesday, April 27.

Boarding passes can be purchased at www.theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk/whats-on/hms-pinafore.

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