2020-2021 Season |
Our Fall Musical Showcase will give students an opportunity to perform a variety of song selections from many musicals through time!
As a Variety Show of sorts, we will start in the 1920's and move through 2020 for many toe tapping numbers and acting selections! We will also be able to see students in action with their student directed selections and designs! *This could potentially be a virtual event if the situation is called for to keep our students and patrons safe during this time. |
As actors, the goal of performing in theatre is to hold up a mirror against life to show truthful moments in time to reserve them as honest and real as we can. We want to connect with audience members while continuing the art of storytelling to the best of it's ability. With our current time, 2020 has many stories to tell.
Students in Pirate Performers Advanced Acting Rep class, will work through "docu-theatre" to interview, transcribe, and then perform true accounts of those affected or not affected by Covid-19. We all have different stories to tell and different ways of looking through situations and adversity. We do not take a side, but want to tell the stories of 2020 as individuals have experienced them. Pirate Performers are proud to preserve these moments and stories in time as the premiere of "Our Covid Stories". *This could potentially be a virtual event if the situation is called for to keep our students and patrons safe during this time. |
A woman carries her heart, broken into nineteen pieces, in a small paper bag. A man shrinks to half his former size, after losing hope in love. A couple keep the love they have given each other in large red bags, or compress the mass into the size of a diamond. These playful and surreal experiences are commonplace in the world of John Cariani’s Almost, Maine, where on one deeply cold and magical Midwinter Night, the citizens of Almost -- not organized enough for a town, too populated for a wilderness -- experience the life-altering power of the human heart. Relationships end, begin, or change beyond recognition, as strangers become friends, friends become lovers, and lovers turn into strangers. Propelled by the mystical energy of the aurora borealis and populated with characters who are humorous, plain-spoken, thoughtful, and sincere, Almost, Maine is a series of loosely connected tales about love, each with a compelling couple at its center, each with its own touch of sorcery.
*This could potentially be a virtual event if the situation is called for to keep our students and patrons safe during this time. |
Join us as we celebrate spring with our Student Led One Acts and our Pirate Performers One Act!
During this time we will also have our students showcase their State and College Auditions that they have worked so hard on as well as our Theatre Arts Class One Acts! This is a night of celebration and great theatre on the stage! |
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Spring Musical
May 6-8 Spring Musical Rating: G |
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Spring Play
May 13-15 Spring Play Rating: PG-13 |
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Now one of the most performed shows in America, Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! Tony winners, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Once on This Island, Ragtime), have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination – Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.
The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust that contains the Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many "thinks." Horton faces a double challenge: not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant. Seussical is fun for the whole family! |
For centuries A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has been one of Shakespeare stages most beloved love story...of sorts.
This spring, Pirate Performers will create a Shakespeare in the Park experience to perform this classic outdoors as a class project and the finale to our theatre season. The love story unraveled : Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another. Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or “puck". Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe.” Join us for this magical night under the stars to head into summer! |
