The Pirates! The Pirates! The Pirates! is a series of five comedy books following a group of pirates on their adventures. It is written by British author Gideon Defoe and was published starting in 2004 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The fifth book "The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics" was released in 2012, and was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. Aardman Animations in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation loosely adapted "The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists " into a 3D stop-motion animated film internationally titled "The Pirates! Band of Misfits". Released on 28 March 2012, and directed by Peter Lord, the
Quite an Adventure his Savoy operas with curtain raisers such as "Quite an Adventure". W. J. MacQueen-Pope commented, concerning such curtain raisers: "Quite an Adventure" was first produced on tour in the English provinces by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a curtain raiser for "H.M.S. Pinafore". The London premiere was at the Olympic Theatre on 7 September 1881, under the management of Michael Gunn, as a companion piece for Solomon's operetta "Claude Duval." It ran until the end of October 1881. D'Oyly Carte again toured the piece in tandem with "Patience" in 1881, and with "Pinafore" and "The Pirates of Penzance" in