The
Wreckers of Red Rock is described as Buffy meets Gilbert and
Sullivan in a new Fringe musical!
Firstly,
I am still awaiting the Buffy references, all I saw was a dark man
in a cloak who comes out at night!! G & S okay, it is loosely based on 'Pirates', gender
swapping and song adaptation take the tail to Red Rock village.
It is here the innocent Maggie McPhee, Josie Kingdon, lives
with her mother Jessie, Elspeth Noble. Maggie walks the cliffs at
night with a lantern looking for her beloved, little realising she
is the cause of the many wrecks on the rocks below.
Encouraged
by the mysterious William Blackheart, the village women scavenge
the loot washed up by the wrecks, pushing survivors back in to the
sea, giving their plunder to Blackheart. Molly O'Brian, Lucy De
Butts and her best friend Faith Jarvis, Alimay Wilson are the ring
leaders and grow increasingly disheartened because they can not marry
their true loves as every man in the village has joined the Revenue Office sworn to
capture and imprison the looters.
Hamish
Walters, David Dennison and his friend Seth Appleby are the
leaders of this cowardly crew. They have cut down patrols to
midday and midnight and published these times so that they can
avoid meeting the pirates.
Then
along comes William Valiant, Guy Routledge, Revenue Man
Extrodinaire. Brought up on the Naval vessel the Valiant after
loosing his parents, presumed drowned, in a storm 19 years before.
William and Maggie meet, fall in love yet
he persuades her to continue one last time to walk along the cliff
tops to aid in the capture of the looters and we all know things
end happily ever after.
Quite
a nice idea, cleverly written but I feel needs a little more
polish.
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