What is Trial by Jury?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox play | name = Trial by Jury | image = Trial Programme Page 3.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = Original programme | writer = [[W. S. Gilbert]] (words)<br />[[Arthur Sullivan]] (music) | chorus = | characters = Angelina, the Plaintiff<br />Edwin, the Defendant<br />Learned Judge | mute = | setting = Court of the Exchequer, ca. 1875 | premiere = 25 March 1875 | place = Royalty Theatre<br />[[London, England]] | orig_lang = English | series = | subject = Breach of promise | genre = [[Operetta]] | web = | playbill = | ibdb_id = | iobdb_id = | theatricalia_id = }} '''''Trial by Jury''''' is one-act [[operetta]] by [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]. It is the second of their fourteen collaborations and their earliest work still performed today. It opened at the Royalty Theatre in [[London]] on 25 March 1875 with [[Jacques Offenbach]]'s ''[[La Périchole]]'' and the [[farce]], ''Cryptoconchoid Syphonostomata''. ''Trial by Jury'' moved about to several different theatres. It was performed about 300 times in its first two years. It was a popular and a critical success. It is only about 45 minutes long, has only one act, and has no spoken words. ''Trial'' is about a young man who is sued for jilting his bethrothed. The judge hearing the case decides to marry the young woman himself. Today, it is sometimes played with another Gilbert and Sullivan operetta such as ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]''. ==References== * Bradley, Ian. 2001. ''The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan''. Oxford University Press. pp. 3-5. [[Category:Operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan]] [[Category:1870s operas]] [[Category:1875 works]] {{performing-arts-stub}}