A very big thank you to our wonderful audiences this week who came to share our groovy Patience experience with us! Your feedback has been amazing and a real tribute to all the hard work that has gone into this show. Many thanks to our inspired Director Alison Gibbs for her hilarious re-envisioning of this show, our wonderful MD Chris Burrett and our brilliant Band and to everyone beavering away behind the scenes to make it all happen. There is just as much talent backstage as there is on it. Here’s to the next one - our celebrated Fairytale Trial by Jury and The Complete (Abridged!) Works of Gilbert and Sullivan!

 

 Photos: Rosalind White Photography

Patience Tickets

Not long now until ‘Patience’ hits the stage! Originally taking aim at the poets of the 1880s aesthetic movement, we’ve updated our production to the groovy hippie movement of the 1960s. Full of Gilbert’s sharp wit about fandom and Sullivan’s wonderful music it’s hilarious and definitely not one to miss! Book early for the best seats here or by clicking on our booking link wherever you see it.

In the groovy 1960s, a band of melancholic ladies idolise the aesthetic poet Bunthorne, though he secretly longs for the unaffected barmaid Patience. She has never been in love and is glad to have avoided the misery it brings. The maidens’ former suitors, the 35th Dragoon Guards, arrive to propose but are scorned in favour of Bunthorne’s languid artistic posturing.

Bunthorne later admits his aestheticism is a fraud. Patience is persuaded that true love must be unselfish and resolves to fall in love. She meets Archibald Grosvenor, her childhood love, now a perfectly handsome and universally admired poet. Concluding that loving someone so perfect would be selfish, they part.

Rejected by Patience, Bunthorne raffles himself among his admirers, but Patience offers to love him selflessly instead. The women return to the Dragoons—until Grosvenor appears and effortlessly wins their devotion.

The officers try to win back their fiancées by adopting aesthetic manners and “artistic” tastes, with mixed success. Bunthorne, jealous, bullies Grosvenor into becoming completely ordinary. When Grosvenor does so, the women abandon aestheticism as quickly as they embraced it. How will the complicated love matches play out? Come and see the show to find out! 

Pirates Bring and Sing

 

Have you booked yet for our rollicking Pirates Bring and Sing? 

There will be tea, coffee and lots of cake, and if you want to dress up as a Pirate or any other character to add to the fun please do! 

 

For more information on to book your tickets to sing with us or be in our audience for our final narrated performance click on our 'order tickets' link or scan the QR code below!

 

 

 

Joint PBGS / Beati Concert

 

We are thrilled to be performing once again with the wonderful Beati Vocal Ensemble. Join us on 13th Feb for some 'Moonlight Melodies' - PBGS will be offering excerpts from 'Patience' and 'The Pirates of Penzance', and Beati will evoking a more romantic mood. If you've never heard this amazing ensemble take a listen to their Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@BeatiVocalEnsemble

There really will be something to enjoy for everyone!

 

Scan the QR code in the poster or buy tickets on the door to join us for a great evening of music at 7.30pm, Dunstable Methodist Church Hall LU6 3SN.

Following our last hugely enjoyable 'Trial by Jury' Bring and Sing we’re inviting everyone to join us again for G&S’s rollicking ‘The Pirates of Penzance’! There will be tea, coffee and lots of cake, and if you want to dress up as a Pirate to add to the fun please do! If you are interested in being considered for a named part, contact us at info@pbgs.org. There will be no separate rehearsals for principals so preferably you will already know the role well!

 

For more information or to book your tickets to sing with us or be in our audience for our final narrated performance click on our 'order tickets' link or scan the QR code below!

 

 

What a year 2025 has been!

We at PBGS wish all our members and followers a very Happy New Year! 

 

April 2026 will see our next show, Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Patience', but 2025 has also been quite the G&S year. 

 

In April/May we put on 'Ruddigore' and in October we followed it up with our Scottish 'The McAdo'. To promote it we dressed up and took to the streets of Hitchin along with some splendid bagpipe playing! We also attended the NODA East District 3 awards with several nominations for 'Ruddigore' and our 2024 'Me and My Girl', with a win for Jessica Hallett as our Mad Margaret. Between our two 2025 shows we managed to wedge in a highly entertaining 'Trial by Jury' Anniversary Bring and Sing in Pirton, preceding that with excerpts from 'Ruddigore' on the same morning in Hitchin Town Square to celebrate World Piano day! We were also singing excerpts from 'Ruddigore' in Harlington in February in our second joint concert with Beati Vocal Ensemble. But our biggest news has been attaining Registered Charity status thanks to some extremely hard work behind the scenes. Around all of this, of course, there have been weekly rehearsals. It's been a great PBGS year and we look forward to sharing more music and laughter with you all in 2026.