Even as our current show has audiences laughing, it’s time to think about Brush Creek’s next wonderful production!
Brush Creek will be holding auditions for actors and would-be actors up through the age of 18 to perform in the 2019 children & youth show, The Pirate’s Paradise, directed by Linda Zellner. Open auditions using cold readings from the script will be held at 2 pm on Saturday, December 15, and at 5 pm on Sunday, December 16 (which provides you an opportunity to catch a performance of Arsenic & Old Lace on either day!). No preparation is necessary, and the auditions are expected to last about two hours. While it isn’t necessary to be there both days, it can sometimes be useful, especially for actors who are new to Brush Creek.
The production will rehearse through January and February to open its three-weekend run on Friday, February 22. There will likely be two casts who will share a total of 12 performances (1 on Friday, 2 on Saturday, and 1 on Sunday each of the three weekends). If you want to know more about rehearsal expectations – or you are interested in being in the show but cannot make either audition date – contact Director Linda Zellner at ljzel@aol.com.
This adventure is another original script by Emily Wood and Michael Wood, who have been writing Brush Creek’s children & youth scripts for the last several years. The production has adventure, mayhem, plenty of rousing good humor – and perhaps just a touch of romance!
The Pirate’s Paradise offers an unusual twist on the typical pirate tale. Many years after the days of Blackbeard and John Morgan, Victorian England’s gives little thought to pirates. Social position, family obligations – and even the quest for the latest, most unique exotic orchid flower are of much greater concern. When professional orchid hunter Frederick Devereux sets out yet again in search of new varieties of the valuable flower, he instead discovers a paradise…a pirate’s paradise. He’d heard vague stories of Libertalia, the utopia for those scoundrels of the sea, but as a man of science and reason he dismissed the tales as romantic nonsense. So Frederick cannot help but be astonished when he not only stumbles upon evidence that the stories are true, but he actually encounters a thriving community of folks whose traditions and norms are neither those of his own society nor exactly what he’d expect from a group of ruthless buccaneers!
Frederick encounters the bold Cap’n Tsunami, the adventurous but noble Captain Reinhardt, and various other crews with their own sometimes bizarre quirks and personalities. He also discovers the seeds of Libertalia’s destruction, brought to life by Frederick’s arrival in the camp. Will the crew of the powerful ship Scarlet Reign bring an end to this pirate Utopia, or is it Frederick himself who offers the greatest threat to Libertalia’s continued existence. Can Frederick find honor among these thieves?