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Sophie and the Pirates a Buccaneering Story by Gay H Were there real pirates? Why do pirates wear eye patches and gold earrings? How do designers use math to get a boat in the theatre and pirate clothes that fit? Find out in this Study Guide For All Patrons About the Story and the Play’s Author/Director 1-2 Going from Page to Stage 2-4 Themes to Discuss & Write About 5-6 Did you know??? 6 Theatre Etiquette 11 Performance Evaluation 12 Especially for K-5 Patrons Land HO! Mapping Skills 7 Three GOLD Teeth MATH 8 For Middle School Patrons The Pirate Code (writing) 9 Deep Sea Math 10 Information to Grow Students’ Understanding & Appreciation of Sophie and the Pirates a buccaneering story by Gay H. Hammond A Pirates Life for me? People are fascinated with pirates. There are and built it up to over 1,000 ships and over LOTS of books and movies about pirates, and 80,000 men who terrorized the South China Sea. you probably know people who have dressed While she didn’t follow the laws of the land, she up like pirates for Halloween -- or maybe it was created strict rules for her ships, and anyone who YOU who donned a sword and eyepatch? broke her law was decapitated. (yikes!) In truth, pirates In the early 1880s, Scotish writer Robert Louis were REAL Stevenson used his imagination to write a bad guys who fictional adventure story about pirates: Treasure were violent Island. His book became VERY popular and robbers; they created lots of the ideas about pirates that are didn’t abide not based in truth (like treasure maps, peg legs by the law and and parrots!). took things (boats, jewelry, Read on to find out about walking the plank, crew mates) from anyone they could overpower. burying treasure, and why pirates wore eye And while we think of pirates during what is patches and earrings. called “the Golden Age of Pirates” mid-1600s- 1700s, pirates have been around as long as boats have been around -- not just in the Carribean but on all the worlds oceans. You might be surprised to know that, while most pirates were fierce men, some very successful pirates were women. Anne Bonny was an Irish lass with flowing red hair who married pirate John Bonny, and was promptly disowned by her respectable family. Her best friend was Mary Read, an English woman who, unlike Anne who wore dresses, dressed as a man so she could join the British military. When her ship was captured by pirates, they thought she was a man and pressed her to join them ~ so she did! One of the most feared pirates of all time was 1 Ching Shih, a woman who married into piracy. When her husband died, she took over his fleet Who wrote this piratical story?? Gay H. Hammond is Director of WonderQuest daugher played the role of Sophie when it was and Resident Dramatist of the first performed in 2005. (She is now a Gainesville Theatre Alliance. Repeat professional actor and teacher in WonderQuest patrons will Atlanta.) recognize her as the playwright who directed and penned Ms. Hammond has been the script for last year’s working in theatre for Jungle Book and as the lady over 35 years and, in that who gives away a T-shirt to time, has written over 40 some lucky student at each plays, both for young and performance. general audiences. She loves children’s literature (she is Most often, Ms. Hammond really good at reading a story adapts classic stories like The and making different voices for Emperor’s New Clothes or all the characters!) and she loves Charlotte’s Web into stage scripts, to write plays for children. Some but every so often she creates a of her favorite plays include The story that is completely new. When Ms. Briar Patch, Sleeping Beauty, Stone Soup Hammond wrote this play, she wanted a pirate and Alice in Wonderland. She loves to play with adventure, AND she wanted to write a story for words and is also the long-time Wordsmith and her daughter, who was a brave little girl who Emcee for the Hall County Literacy Spelling Bee! liked to get people to play well together. Her Meet some of the CREATIVE people who took this pirate story from page to stage! If you have never been to a play, you may now 12 years ago. He know that, unlike a movie, you will be seeing lives in New York real people, called actors, act out the characters City now, working of Sophie and various pirates right in front of with costumes on your eyes -- and they are listening for your different theatre response! and film projects, and he came back In addition to the actors’ ability to “pretend” to Gainesville to they are different people, part of what helps us design for Sophie go “into the story” and imagine we are there too (and see his parents is the costume design (character’s clothes), and and brothers). the scenic design which creates a setting to help us understand the action in the story. William began by reading the WonderQuest is happy to welcome back two script and talking alumni as our costume and scenic designers with director Gay whose great imaginations and artistry are helping Hammond about to make Sophie and the Pirates a LIVE play. key things she would like to see in Costume Designer William Mellette grew up in the costume design. Hall County and went to Riverbend Elementary Ms. Hammond told and North Hall High School, eventually studying him she would like Lots of Victorian girls liked with GTA/WonderQuest during his college to play to be set in to do outdoor things -- they 2 years. He graduated from Brenau University Victorian times didn’t just serve tea! (mid-to-late 1800s) – but she left the details to William his imagination. researched what pirates from From there, William began researching what different parts little girls, adults and pirates looked like in that of the world time period. He made a collection of research looked like and pictures and began making plans for what character should where what, how their hair created sketches should be styled, what kind of hats they might of the costumes wear, etc., and what little oddities or special he wanted to touches might be part of different character’s make for the costume that tells us something about them. crew of the Dainty Betsy. Once they agreed on the design, William began to sketch the characters so the WonderQuest elves could sew the costumes…. Just kidding! Williams’ sketches are being used by our team of stitchers (men and women who can sew) to make the costumes. William traveled to Atlanta to select the right fabrics – pieces with color and pattern that are right for the time period and that help give the characters their personalities. He also has to make sure costumes will work well with the set -- Gray costumes would be invisible on a gray ship! William will have to measure every person in the play to make costume pieces for each person – and some actors may have several costumes because they play several characters. He will also suggest make-up ideas for the characters he is helping to create. William’s first Pirate show was a stunt show at a theme park. For this show all of the actors had to be to be very physical with their acting and stunts, much like gymnastics. The actors playing the pirates had to be able to jump, climb, do flips and sword fight safely. Make-up is part of costuming artistry, and might include pretend scars, mustaches and beards. A lot of thought went into choosing the right clothing to allow stunts to be performed safely One costume designer created a movie pirate that 3 and that would still look like pirates. completely changed the way people think of pirates -- do you know the character? Scenic Designer Nick Hilliard graduated in 2016 a more interesting play if, instead of having – not so long ago. He went to school at the everyone come and go through one door, Chestnut Mountain Elementary and graduated maybe some people come through a door, some from Johnson High School before studying climb up the side of the ship and maybe others with GTA/WonderQuest and graduating from surprise us by swinging in from the ships rigging! the University of North Georgia. He works in Atlanta as a scenic artist, doing sculpture and Nick created scale drawings for the set, with painting for movie and TV productions that are specific measurements to make sure the set being filmed here in Georgia. would fit on the stage, and a team of GTA/ WonderQuest students built the ship over the After reading the script, Nick developed some summer. The show’s Technical Director used ideas for the set, which for this play is a pirate Nick’s scale drawings and her math skills to figure ship, and then discussed his ideas with Ms. out exactly how much wood and paint would be Hammond. Some of the things scenic designers needed. have to think about are, how to create different locations that take place in the play, and how Nick researched methods of painting that make the characters will enter and exit the stage. It’s wood look old, and since he is a gifted scenic painter as well as a designer, he did much of the set painting, making it look like an old ship that has been on the sea for years.
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