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! The playbill above showcases only a handful of student directed One Acts that you will see that evening!
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 Play
April 22-24 Spring Play Rating: G *In Person & Virtual Livestream Option *This play option features musical underscoring and a few songs sung by students following covid safe performance best practices. |
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Spring Play
May 7-8 Spring Readers Theatre Class Workshop Rating: PG-13 *In Person & outdoor venue options (Pending weather) *May 7 : Possible Outdoor Performance @ 6pm *May 8 : 2pm & 6pm Show |
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Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. Peter Pan).
A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels, the play was conceived for the stage by directors, Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, and written by Rick Elice, with music by Wayne Barker. From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair... and the bonds of friendship, duty and love. A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains a precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure. Featuring a dozen actors portraying more than 100 unforgettable characters, Peter and the Starcatcher uses ingenious stagecraft and the limitless possibilities of imagination to bring the story to life. Peter & The Starcatcher 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! *This will be performed outdoors for one performance, but we will also have indoor performances available with limited seating* |
