CLACTON Arts and Literary Society’s new season gets underway next week with an Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan.

The special concert will see journey through their lives of the composer and writer, including all the favourites from HMS Pinafore, the Pirates of Penzance to Mikado and one or two surprises along the way.

The pair collaborated on 14 operas before the end of the 19th Century and they are just as familiar and well loved today.

The singers will be soprano Naomi Harvey, mezzo Kate Woolveridge, tenor Robyn Lyn Evans, baritone Owen Webb, with piano from Sharon Richards.

The concert will take place at the Princes Theatre, in Station Road, Clacton, on Monday at 7.30pm.

A season ticket for all 16 evenings on the society’s calendar costs £44 and individual performances are priced at £10. For more information, go to clactonartsandlits.com.