Sharing a rare moment of harmony at a canal-side cafe are the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro.

Roly Robertshaw and Janine McAndrew play the characters in a new production of comic operetta The Gondoliers.

The Gilbert and Sullivan classic, first presented in 20 years ago, is as usual set in the Italian city of Venice.

But Haworth West Lane Baptist Amateurs have brought the action forward many decades and set it in the 1960s.

Producer Michael Lofthouse is a past master of freshening up G&S without losing the essence of its comedy, satire and romance.

The Gondoliers , subtitled The King of Barataria, was the 12th of 14 operettas to be written by Gilbert and Sullivan .

It was written at a time when the lyricist and composer were increasingly in conflict over what they should be writing.

But along with the earlier HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado it went on to become one of their most popular works.

Premiered at their own Savoy Theatre in 1889 it ran for 554 performances.

The story concerns a young woman who arrives in Venice to join the man she was married to as a child.

But the bridegroom, heir to the throne of Barataria, cannot be identified.

Years before he had been entrusted to the care of a drunken gondolier who mixed up the prince with his own son and brought them both up to be gondoliers.

The young men have to jointly rule their kingdom until the nurse of the prince can be brought in to determine which of them is the rightful king.

Meanwhile the new queen is in love with someone else.

The cast of the Haworth production includes Bill Bairstow, Elizabeth Hopker, Josh Breeze, Gill Dobson, Paul Cross, Victoria Molloy and Leon Waksberg. (All correct) The Gondoliers is in Haworth West Lane Baptist Church from Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm, with a Saturday performance at 2.15pm.

Tickets cost £8 for adults and £5 for children, plus £6 for over-60s on Monday evening and the Saturday matinee.

Tickets from Haworth Tourist Information Centre, Main Street, or phone 01535 643425.