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About the Production
In the chilldrippery of a sunken galleon, in its deepest bowels, two ancient pirates dwell: Saucy Jack and Bagfoot, their lives sustained by the ecosystem that has overtaken the bilge around them.
Thanks to the bile-green phosphorescent bladderwrack that thrives on the flooded deck, their air refuses to run out — and thanks to the eyeless, dark-adapted ghastlies that swim among those weeds, their food refuses to run out also.
So the men have lived for decades.
But their life isn't uneventful. There are all sorts of monsters and monstresses down there; and something worse than that — the veiled memory of why they're down there at all...
By the foremost pirate-journalist of the age, his hook fashioned into a nib of cunning design, fashioned for the express purpose of passing on these urgent tales!
"If you see one horror comedy science fiction play about pirates trapped forever in a pocket ecosystem in the bilge of a sunken ship, perhaps make it Bladderwrack."
Cast & Creative Team
David Tredinnick
Writer / Actor / Director
Actor/narrator of some note/notoriety. Has been given some awards and not others. Self-contained within a pocket ecosystem of his own devising.
Adam Browne
Writer / Illustrator
Melbourne science fiction writer and illustrator. Author of the Cyrano de Bergerac sequel featuring "lantern-headed Martians, houses made of birds, and a villain attired as a billiard table."
The Book of the Play
The Ship's Big Steaming Log
by Saltpetre Cragshank, pirate and special correspondent
But even after the play is done, there are mysteries yet to unearth. Read the tales of the Vivisectress! — that ancient vessel, endlessly renewed through the centuries, her timbers evolving as her legend grows...
Observe with dismay the illustrations of the ventriloquist fish that seizes the mind of its host, the living figurehead bound to the bow since ancient Greece, and others too horrible to list here.
The play pretty much makes no sense without it.
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