BLADDERWRACK

by david tredinnick and adam browne

In the chilldrippery of a sunken galleon, two ancient pirates dwell in extravagant misery: Saucy Jack and Bagfoot, their lives sustained by the ecosystem that has overtaken the bilge around them.

Thanks to the bile-green phosphorescent bladderwrack that thrives in the ship’s bowels, their air refuses to run out – and thanks to the eyeless, dark-adapted ghastlies that swim among those weeds, their food refuses to run out also.

So the men have existed for decades.

Although they might prefer otherwise, their lives are not without incident.

There are monsters and monstresses sharing the deeps with them -- a parasitic ventriloquist fish -- a living galleon which was once another type of ship, which was once another type of ship in turn -- swarming invertebrate horrors you can see only when your eyes are closed -- and more, each worse than the last.

In fact, as the audience will discover, they’re the worst of all things. But there’s something still worse to come: the unveiled memory of why they're down there at all...

Bladderwrack is exactly the comedy horror science-fiction pantomime pirate show with bits of opera you’ve been waiting for!

If it takes place in a small setting, it’s a big story -- so big that it has spilled alarmingly off the stage and into the realm of literature…

Now the bolder theatre goer might “enjoy” the dark insights afforded by the BOOK OF THE PLAY.

Including contributions from one of the leading pirate-journalists of the era, the book features the full script, copious illustrations, poetry, shanties, a scientific paper, and several additional stories -- all further illuminating the inky world in which you find yourself, alas!

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