pirates

The Pirates of Penzance

Pirates do the Twist! Comic masterpiece The Pirates of Penzance returns to Plymouth in a new production set in the late 1950s.

The Infamous Pirates of Penzance return to Plymouth with the international-award-winning PGS Theatre Productions at the Devonport Playhouse from 24th – 28th March. In recent years this company has presented ‘Chess – The Musical’, Monty Python’s ‘Spamalot’ and ‘Evita’.

As with many of the comic duo’s plots, the fun and farcical story involving...

'Pirates' raise £610 for SW Mesothelioma Support Group

A group of ‘Cornish pirates’ from the Halfway Harmony choir in Kingsand & Cawsand raised £761.00 for the Torpoint and Rame Peninsula Lions New Year’s day Dip.

20% of the total raised went to the Lions own charities leaving a magnificent total of £610.00 which was donated to the South West Mesothelioma Support Group.

The South West Mesothelioma Group is based at The...

Pirates and Chips competition

The famous Pirate Weekend is returning to Plymouth on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

As part of the pirate festivities Harbourside Fish and Chips have announced a ‘Pirates and Chips’ competition. For all those who visit Pirate Weekend in fancy dress anyone who tweets a picture outside Harbourside Fish and Chips with the hashtag #Piratesandchips will be entered into a competition...

Plymouth Pirate Weekend 2015

Plymouth Pirate Weekend 2015 has been confirmed to take place on Saturday & Sunday 16-17 May

Talk: The Women Pirates: Image and Reality - John Appleby

Tuesday 7 March, 19:00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

Running time: 90 minutes with a 15 minute interval

Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Liverpool Hope University, John Appleby, looks at the history of women pirates. He has published widely on aspects of English and Irish maritime and colonial history during the 16th and 17th century and most recently the publication Under the Bloody Flag: Pirates of the Tudor Age (Stroud, 2009...

Pirate Fun at Devonport Library

Families are being invited to get into nautical fancy dress for a day of fun pirate capers at Devonport Library on Saturday 6 October.

Hosted in partnership with the River Tamar Project and supported by Working Links, the Pirate Day is one of the highlights of the It’s All About the River film festival, running from 12 September to 12 October.

The event will get under way at...