 The book describes all of the company's productions up to 2010 and includes cast lists.The company achieved its first theatrical financial success in 1995 with Clarke's adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" called "The Parson's Pirates", about the vicar of St Michael's Under Ware, who is tasked with raising church funds through an amateur production of "Pirates".The original idea had been merely to produce an evening of Gilbert and Sullivan hits with five singers.