The quest has begun...three women set sail
in search of their inner pirate!
Our three fantastic performers, Chloe
Dechery, Lucinka Eisler and Simone Kenyon will be stepping into the shoes of
three ancient female pirates of the past, the rarely recorded stories of these
fierce swashbuckling women, who sailed the high seas, jumped aboard
enemy ships, cut throats for a living and held their own in a male dominated
world; will help shape the narrative of the show as
it goes through a four week devising process. The performers will infuse
their own tales of adventure, recalling times when they have been most Pirate
like!
This quest will aim to discover something
about being a woman in 2012, considering female identity, the ambition and
confidence that we do or do not possess in our contemporary lives.
Paying particular attention to the Golden
Age of Piracy, we follow the stories of Irish Pirate - Anne Bonny, Ching Shih
from China and Mary Read from the shores of England, looking at how these blood
thirsty damsels were able to out-sail, out-think, and out-fight every man on
the high seas.
How did they do it? Could she still do it today?
Has her 21st century
counterpart got the guts to stick a dagger between her teeth, fire a broadside
and make off with the booty?
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