Scene 8 - The Pirate Ship

Scene Eight starts with the mermaids hiding in the sea, after a short discussion they emerge to dance on the beach. They are disturbed by the arrival of the Darlings and Peter Pan. Peter decides to climb onto maroon rock in order to try a trick on the pirates. He pretends to be Hook and stops the pirates from drowning Tiger Lily. The scene ends with a fight between the lost boys and Peter versus Hook and the Pirates. Hook is consumed by the croc.

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Claire Biggs as Mullins - Claire was the Empress Intended in a Ladd in Wes-Tong. At the back of rehearsals she worked on her studies.

Charlotte Charles took the title role in A Ladd In Wes Tong last year (and her dad supplied the scaffolding!)

Claire Biggs as Pot Mullins.(she went on to appear as a Dimmock Dancer in Alison Westonland)

Charlotte Charles as Smee. Previously she took the title role of Al in A Ladd in Wes Tong

Debbie went out and got the right wig - as can be seen from the extract from Peter Pan below.

Melissa Dunn as Cookson

Debbie Rimmington as James T. Hook

"In the midst of them, the blackest and largest in that dark setting, reclined James Hook, or as he wrote himself, Jas. Hook, of whom it is said he was the only man that the Sea-Cook feared. He lay at his ease in a rough chariot drawn and propelled by his men, and instead of a right hand he had the iron hook with which ever and anon he encouraged them to increase their pace. As dogs this terrible man treated and addressed them, and as dogs they obeyed him. In person he was cadaverous [dead looking] and blackavized [dark faced], and his hair was dressed in long curls, which at a little distance looked like black candles, and gave a singularly threatening expression to his handsome countenance. His eyes were of the blue of the forget-me-not, and of a profound melancholy, save when he was plunging his hook into you, at which time two red spots appeared in them and lit them up horribly. In manner, something of the grand seigneur still clung to him, so that he even ripped you up with an air, and I have been told that he was a RACONTEUR [storyteller] of repute. He was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding; and the elegance of his diction, even when he was swearing, no less than the distinction of his demeanour, showed him one of a different cast from his crew. A man of indomitable courage, it was said that the only thing he shied at was the sight of his own blood, which was thick and of an unusual colour. In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II, having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts; and in his mouth he had a holder of his own contrivance which enabled him to smoke two cigars at once. But undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw." - J.M.Barrie

Melody - daughter oh Hook - although not Hooks favourite Pirate - too soft!

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Harriet Rimmington as Melody. She and cut-throat Bob are additions to the story. The scripts are available.

Cut Throat Bob - Andrew Hurt

 Last updated February 11th 2001

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