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two performances on Saturday 29th June 2024 of this family-fun swashbuckling adventure!An Act of Piracy
By Patrick Derksen - Directed by Eleanor DeSouza and Harry Pryde
Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Denver, Colorado, USA
Set in an era when women were not allowed to act and men had to play female roles, Lord Cranbury’s traveling company of scallywag actors just can’t seem to get their big break! If only he knew that five members of his troupe are actually women... playing men who play female roles! But that’s not why their traveling show is failing. Could it be because some don’t bother to learn their lines? Or suffer from terrible stage fright? Certainly, it’s not because star actor Victor Thatcher, who is actually demanding diva Vivian Thatcher, keeps changing the play to suit his (or rather, her) mood, is it?
Realizing the troupe’s in need of radical revitalizing, Cranbury decides to buy a ship and set sail with his thespian crew. After all, if they are going to do a play about pirates, they should experience the real thing! (It’s method acting, after all!) But the ocean is no place for landlubbers: the real Pirates doesn’t take kindly to other buccaneers in their territory. And the French naval commander, Capitaine Haute-Valois, just happens to be hunting for pirates to bring to justice. Can the rag-tag group of pedestrian players find their sea-legs in time to avoid Davy Jones’s locker?
IHDC is a not-for-profit community group. Our summer show is an opportunity to give larger roles to our younger and developing talent with the safety and support of the veterans alongside them.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
SL0 0DA Iver, United Kingdom, 25 St Margarets Close, Iver, SL0 0DA, United Kingdom,Iver, Uxbridge
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