Pirates and Fairies Theater Camp

July 7-11, 2014

Our friend Will invited Trace and Jack to join him at theater camp. We were very surprised that Trace was picked to be the Cabin Boy, the littlest of the pirates who later becomes Peter Pan. I guess we didn't recognize his precociousness. Here Trace is nose to nose with Will, his swarthy pirate friend.

In this scene he is crying because he got left behind by the pirates. Maybe because the pirate roll call procedure was less than effective--"All present, raise your hand! Yep! Everyone's here!" This scene had my favorite moment of the play. The narrator said, "The cabin boy was afraid." On that cue Trace looked directly at the audience and his eyes got really big. Everyone laughed.

The invisible fairies found him and gave him some special glasses so that he could see them.

The cabin boy broke the glasses so the pirates couldn't use them to capture the fairies and sell them for their magic. As a reward, the fairies made it so he could see them, even without the magic glasses, and thus he became Peter Pan.

In Jack's play he chose to be Metal Beard after a character from the Lego Movie.

He was very proud of his tinfoil beard. He was in character every minute.

Here he got to make an mutinous pirate walk the plank.

Who says boys don't like to play dress up?

A pistol in one hand, a sword in the other. Jack begged and begged for another week at the theater, but the following week was Clint's Change of Command and we were slightly booked.