​​​We The Pyrates: 

5 Acts in Verse

20 Actors Required

3 hours, including 2 intermissions

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Welcome to the Island of Providence in the Bahamas, 1718.

 

Pirate Captains of many different nations successfully formed a Republic here off the shores of America—in retaliation against the same powers that America would come to defy: not just England, empire, colonialism, but slavery, poverty, forced military service, forced taxation (privateering), religious persecution, etc.

 

Why and how did they manage to come together into a Republic? Why and how did their Republic end?

 

If there is a central message to this play, among the many piratical lessons that may be gleaned, it is that, still,

We Are All Pirates. And All of these Pirates, are Us.