Roles:

• Enid Arabella: American girl around 10 years old
• Arabella's Mother
• Arabella's Father
• Captain Johnny Johne: Pirate King
• Bevin: teenage pirate from Ireland
• Tito Orlando: teenage pirate from Spain
• Mhina: young pirate from Africa
• Ayana: Mhina's younger sister. Pirate from Africa
• Tom: young pirate from America

Pirate Chorus:

• Lars from Sweden
• Sayyida from Morocco
• Pavel from Russia
• Artemisia from Italy
• Enrique from Mexico
• Begum from India
• Harriet from America

In the original production, there was a pirate band who played the music onstage.

The following resources are included in each performance license:

• Permission to photocopy the PDF script/score for your production so there is no additional cost for these assets.
• Orchestration for three musicians (accordion, drums, shakers, guitar, mandolin, pipes, recorder, flute)

The following resources may be added to you license for an additional fee:

• Logo/Media package

Liz Duffy Adams, is a New Dramatists alumna and has received a Women of Achievement Award, Lillian Hellman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Will Glickman Award, and MacDowell Colony residencies. Her play Or premiere Off Broadway at Women's Project and has been produced numerous times since, including at the Magic Theatre and Seattle Repertory Theatre. Other plays include Dog Act; Wet or, Isabella the Pirate Queen Enter the Horse Latitude; The Listener; The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge of It or, The Train Play; and One Big Lie. Publications include Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses in Applause's "Best American Short Plays 2000-2001" Or, in Smith & Kraus' "Best Plays of 2010" and several plays in acting editions by Playscripts, Inc. and Dramatists Play Service. She was the 2012-13 Briggs-Copeland Visiting Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard.

Ellen Maddow is a founding member of the New York Based Talking Band and has written text and music for many of its works, including The Peripherals (an indie rock musical), Panic! Euphoria! Blackout, Flip Side (published in Plays and Playwrights 2010), Delicious Rivers, Painted Snake in a Painted Chair (for which she has received an Obie Award), and five pieces about the avant-garde housewife, Betty Suffer. She also wrote music for Talking Band's productions of The Walk Across America for Mother Earth (by Taylor Mac), Star Messengers, Radnevsky's Real Magic, Belize and The Parrot (by Paul Zimet). Ellen is the recipient of the Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theatre, a McKnight Playwriting Fellowship, NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, numerous Meet the Composer grants, ASCAP Special Awards and a New York Theatre.com People of the Year Award. She was a member of the Open Theatre and an alumnus of New Dramatists.

Originally commissioned and produced by Children's Theatre Company in 2012