During this time, Gilbert and Sullivan also collaborated on one other major work, the oratorio "The Martyr of Antioch", premiered at the Leeds music festival in October 1880. Gilbert arranged the original epic poem by Henry Hart Milman into a libretto suitable for the music, and it contains some original work. During this period, also, Gilbert occasionally wrote plays to be performed elsewhere–both serious dramas (for example "The Ne'er-Do-Weel", 1878; and Gretchen, 1879) and humorous works (for example "Foggerty's Fairy", 1881). However, he no longer needed to turn out multiple plays each year, as he had done before. Indeed, during the more than nine years that separated "The Pirates of Penzance" and "The Gondoliers", he wrote just three plays outside of the partnership with Sullivan. Only one of these works, "Comedy and Tragedy", proved successful. Although "Comedy and Tragedy" had a short run due to the lead actress refusing to act during Holy Week, the play was revived regularly. With respect to "Brantinghame Hall", Stedman writes, "It was a failure, the worst failure of Gilbert's career."