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Embark on a journey of love and adventure with Anne Bonny and Calico Jack Rackham in the final hours of piracy!

 

There is excitement on the port of New Providence, Bahamas. The ship captured by Calico pirate Jack Rackham is approaching. The crowd wants to applaud the man whose fame grows day by day. Barely arrived, Rackham rushes to the port tavern to recount his exploits... and quench his thirst!
An attentive spectator, Anne Bonny, daughter of a rich planter, follows the pirate's story with admiration. Which sets out to approach the beautiful young woman... who hardly resists because the man's presence has seduced her, because, also, she dreams of adventures and buccaneers. And so, Jack and Anne, a volcanic couple, set out to conquer the merchant ships that crisscross the Atlantic Ocean, taunting the warships of Governor Wood Rogers. The king, George I, appointed him in 1718 to put an end to acts of piracy.

Will he manage to stop Anne, the fearsome female pirate, and her companion, Calico Jack Rackham?

Through a journey to the 18th century where pirates, often treated as smart and bandits, but who in reality were demonstrators for human rights, beyond skin color, social class and sexual tastes (pirates were the first in history to legalize same-sex unions), the show reflects social issues that are still present today.
The position of women and their rights is particularly highlighted thanks to the figure of Anne Bonny, the first woman truly recognized in history as a pirate and who shared the lives of men in all its aspects.

Finally, from this very modern historical painting the love story between Anne Bonny and Jack Rachkam, her great love who deeply believed in the equal rights of men and women, by allowing her to join his ship braving the pirate laws from the time when no women were accepted at sea!
In an era dominated by monarchy and royalism, pirates offer a very particular and avant-garde version of the republic and democracy.

 

Some pictures

What do you think the viewers ?

Here the public of the New Atrium of Saint-Avertin (383 seats) won over

What do you think the press?

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