 Hello everybody! Hi! Thank you here! We're so excited that you're here for... Treasure Island! Wait, what play was that? Treasure Island! Treasure Island! Treasure Island! Has anyone here read the classic Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson? Yes, you're gonna see something kind of like the book you read. But I've changed it quite a bit. And my name's Reba, and I'm the director of this play. And I also adopted it, and I had a lot of fun with the story. It sounds like actors are still backstage doing their warm-up. Can you hear them? Yeah? They're counting! It's so true! Everybody, enjoy the show! Thank you so much! The bed bow in. Welcome, sir. I run the place with my boy Jim over here. It's just the two of us. You can tell me what you need. Are you looking for a hot meal or a place to stay? Good-bye, man. May I ask you how you heard about the place? I shipped rock to Ny-Astra on town. People said your inn was mighty fine. That'd be fine. It would offer me a peaceful place to clear my head. I haven't had a hot meal, and I don't know how long. Or a place to rest my head that wasn't wet and moving side to side. How long have you been up to sea sailor? Months. Maybe years. What boat do you sail on? There's been more than a few, my lady. Listen, this is a fine establishment. I won't have any trouble. No shenanigans, no wrapped scallions, and especially no pirates. Do you hear me? Oh, not I, man. No pirates. I can't have the trouble. I assure you, I am not a pirate. I'm tired. Oh, so welcome, sir. Come in. Oh, nothing. I ain't like all sea-paying men, Genti. Of course you leave treasure, don't you? Gold bars, diamonds, rubies, stuff that make you rich. Never have to work a day in your life. The ocean, that blue-ish greenish mass of water. You've been to the beach before, right? Have on a ship, on a clear day. See the horizon, stretch beyond your dreams. And you can't quite tell where the sky stops and the water begins because they're both kind of same color. Then they're in a daze when the ocean roars and buckles and waves hide. Your math is more beautiful than any ruby or sapphire you'd ever see. The ocean's a little full, you know. Felt as though it's a call. A call to adventure. Do you smell it? Jim, what are you doing dreaming again with all these people staying at the inn? You said you'd help me. You gave me your word. What do you need? Check on the captain, room six. What did you think? That I was a pirate? No, I just yearn for adventure. I look off to see and imagine my mom calls it dreaming. I would love to be on a boat sailing the high seas, but I have work at the end. Your logins. You a cabin boy? No, I work at the end. You make a small cabin boy anyway. A young wee thing. I'm not small. Puppy. I'm really tight-brown, sir. I look after this inn with my mother. You protect your mother? I do, sir. I wasn't fighting you after all. I do, sir. Can I get you anything, sir? Don't call me, sir. It doesn't suit me. Call me captain. Captain? Captain Billy Bones. Yes, Captain Bones. Fill my cup. Like strangers, they make me spy and jump like a porpoise. You keep on the lookout for a seafaring man with one leg. I'm looking for a one-legged sailor. A one-legged? He's got a bird on his shoulder and one leg made of wood. You ever see that man? You tell me. Why? I can run the other way. That's why. Take my telescope, boy. Are you? He has the best adventure stories. You let sword fights. He's had them. I was saying walk the plank. He's said it. Mutiny. He's never done that. He's told me all kinds of things I need to know about sailing on ship. So I'll know when the adventure calls. Come, sir. Are you looking for a hot meal or a place to stay? I'm looking for someone. What? Who? We don't want any trouble here. Just a hot meal now. Right away, sir. Jim, a hot meal. Come here, sonny. I want to go closer. This is your table from the Nate Bill. Well, Nate Bill now lets his heart. You know me? After you now for three days, I finally found you, Billy. Billy Bones. You made off with Captain Flint's map. You tell me where that map is. I don't know what you're talking about. Really, I don't. Don't play with me. You took Captain Flint's map and you're after the treasure. Did you really think you'd get away with it? Get away with what? Easy now, old brother. Just wait until after sunset. We'll be back for you. Jim, I'm going to get away from here quick before I slip the black spot. You see chest thereafter. Take that chest and run. You hear me? Yes, sir. Close to mine. You do it, Jim. Take the chest. Jim Hawkins. This is Hawkins. Those cut- What do you say, Hawkins? Bristol. What's his name? Captain. And since you found it, you should be the one. Oh, what a true honor to hold the map, Scarce Lottie. I promise to take very good care of it. Silver's office. I just got one. The other's in the laundry. Make home for your ship. You ought to be certain. You being the captain, aren't you? Captain Billy Telescope, looking for one-legged sailor. Could this be him? Can I help you, sir? I was just asking your captain if I could come upon your ship. I'm not the captain, sir. I am the cabin boy. And it looks like you are one-legged sailor. I don't think you have any business on my ship. Jim, what did this man do to you to warrant such rudeness? Forgive me, gentlemen. I am just an old sailor. Hobbled on to get a smell of the salt air. What a ship this is. Do you mind if I come aboard for just a spell? It's been a long time since I've been on a ship so grand. This way, man. Silver's the name. Long John Silver, they call me. Are there many ones like a secret man? A country school of them. Just like birds in the sky. I am sorry, Mr. Silver. I am so sorry for my fondness. No hard feelings, chap. You have a boat to protect. As you can see, Mr. Silver, here we have the captain's quarters and right next to it, the galley. What the galley? Why, it's the prettiest kitchen you've ever seen. What a lucky cook will work in there. You don't have a cook. What a shame, Mr. Squire. Cooks all over England should be clamoring to show you their skills. But do you have experience in this job, Mr. Silver? Mr. Silver, I do. I've cooked on many a boats, but never a galley. So fine. You should hire Mr. Silver. Oh, I wouldn't. The job is yours if you want it. I won't disappoint. Cabin boy. What's your favorite food? Cake. Then we'll have cake every night. I'm in need of a whole crew. I hire folks, so they don't seem to come back. Oh, no. Well, ain't that a shame, Mr. Squire. How many nights you be needing? Four to six, but they need to be honest sailors. Everything on this voyage needs to be above board. I? No buccaneer types. You'll be scared of pirates, eh? I may know some. I'll spread the word. Gather them up. You know this one, that? No, but I can learn. A gentleman. The Hispaniola. That's the ship. Our ship. Aye, sunny. The young cabin boy hired me to be the cook. We're having birthday cake every night. Let me introduce you to my friend's gym. This is William O'Brien. Lost his ear defending a kid. The kid got the best of him. How do you do? And over here is my friend, his really hands. Sailor Captain Flint, the black bearded Edward T. Many greats. This, of course, is Patrick O'Hare. Quite a musician. Play something for us, will you Pat? What were you giving me, Longdraw? They weren't being any other hands. On this boat, George. Would they? Longdraw. Only good. Honest. Inquired boat with a squire named Trilani. Mental folk in this establishment. You hear me? You're not welcome here. Wait here, baby. I don't upstairs to get my bag. I can get my bird. Your bird? That was an adventure. I do hope you can... Join us? Where are you going? You gotta know your destination before you set sail. Oh, we do. We have a map. Gym. Meet Captain Flint. A remarkable bird. I named her after my old captain. Your old captain was Captain Flint. Now this bird, Jim, is two. Maybe three hundred years old. They live forever. And no one has seen more wickedness than this bird. She sailed with Captain England. A pirate. Spent a Madagascar. Malabar in Portobello. She was in the fishing of the red plate ships all because of flora. That's where she learned how to survey. And no wonder, Jim, gave fish to 350,000 silver pieces. What would you do with all that silver? She was in the Bay of Bengal, and with Captain England himself, aboard the Portobello ship carrying diamonds. I was looking at her. I think she was a baby. He says that she's seen a lot of treasure. We're a little break and sniff out treasure, Jim. Even if you're not looking for it. She's like a compass for gold. Good to have when you go on an adventure like ours. But we're not looking for treasure, are we? Of course not, boy. But if we were to happen upon it, it wouldn't be a bad thing. Now what? I suppose not, sir. Because she bites her. Narrow, you nipple. Oh, the squire that we saw, old black dog. Why wouldn't I? You don't want to worry a man like Squire Trillani unnecessarily, Jim. He's got a lot on his mind right now. A lot on his mind. My lips are sealed. Maybe. You're just smart as paint. Black dog, black dog. You flambrain. Take this idea, Margaret. There's a superstition that says it's bad luck. I don't care about your superstitions. I will work as hard as any man aboard and more so. Only you will know my secret. Please, let me be close to my boy. You're so great as the crashing of bricks cause the sea cheese a call. You're standing at the seafaring light cause the sea cheese a call in my name. A good crew, mate. He's got a mustache. Black dog doesn't have a mustache. Call me white twirl mate. Nice to meet your acquaintance. Oh, all right. Not much of a seafaring move, but he's good at being a doctor. What does a doctor do? Well, I cut people up and put them back together. Cutting people up is not fun. To the squire with my confluence, gentlemen. Attention, two gentlemen. Mass knows more about this voyage than I do, and I want the truth right now. What are you talking about, Captain? I was told this was merely a trade ship to import spices from the south. A search for buried treasure. Who said? They know we're on a voyage to find Silver's bird has been squawking about it. Was it you, Jim? This is a very risky venture. You as your captain on two conditions. The first condition is that the map is locked up in the safe box, and I have the only key. Jim, it's in the best interest of all. Jim, small it, that's map. Second condition is that we cut the tips off their knives and enlist you men to help me. I orders. Why are you men standing here? How will I cut the meat, sir? I must have sharp knives to prepare the food and to change buttons with you after we set sail. Honest man aboard, it's Captain Small It. Honest, sure. Put it down right, humble. Captain's nicer active better than he could. Look down there, boy. What do you see? A shark! That's old Nicodemus, the shark. Why is he following us? We've been feeding him ever since we left the port. We have? With potato peelings. A voyage from, John. Would you like to come live with me? See, I'll have money. Just remember me. Anyhow, those can visit, right? Will all these be mates? Certainly we will. No, it's fit into the sea stuff. It's always lucky to fit into the ocean when you're on a ship. Just as long as we don't fit on old Mr. Nicodemus because I don't think he'd like that very much. He might develop a taste for you. Just joking, lad. Old Mr. Nicodemus isn't false anymore. Is that another shark? No, that's a dolphin, a sea man's friend. Dolphin over the bow is a good sign. I guess nobody knows where we're headed to except the dolphin. Captain's log. We've been traveling for 13 days and still no land of sight. The crew is abated now. Aren't men a fortune as I originally suspected? On the ship forever. Are we lost? No, Jimmy. Captain Smallnose is going. And he's keeping us right on track. How do you know? Look up there. What do you see? A bunch of stars. I see a soup ladle. We're in a nice clam chowder. Do you see it? Do you think it's a sky? No. Just connect the stars. See that big, different spoon? Oh yes, I kind of do. I do. All right, there. The flow of that nice sky chowder goes straight to the north star. There's a W. No, you've gone too far and spilled soup on the Queen Cassiopeia. That's the north star right between the Queen and the soup. But that's behind us. And that tells we're not headed north. Are we? Look that way, between the bow and the starboard side. There are three stars. That's the belt of Orion. His arm and his shoulder pointing straight up. Follow the sword. And that, my dear friend, is south. So we're headed south. South-east. South-east. We're the treasures. I mean, south-east is where we must be going. You can smell the treasure. I can taste it. What does it taste like? A future. Man, my own island away from the law. To the future! This gentleman walks the plank. Leave this, sir. We've got to get our hands on that map. Be alone. One of us. A man of fortune. Yes, sir. What fucking years have you sailed with? Old Firebeard himself. Firebeard. I've never heard of Firebeard. Sure you've heard of Firebeard. You've never heard of Firebeard. He called him Firebeard because his beard is, you know, red and once he set fire to it, I imagine you're looking for a share of the treasure. Sure he has a long job. All for one and one for all. He deserves it, just like a lot of us. Very well. Plenty enough to go around, I say. We strike tonight. No. No. Not tonight. Small is a good navigator. We've got to use the skills. When do we strike? We strike on the way home. Sending them all over the board in one fell swoop. We lost them in a storm when we sank. Limit the struggle, cut our losses, and go home with the treasure. Not as comfortable as a Firebeard. Look at the job that I say. Mom's treasure's mine. And mine. And mine. I can't wait to see that little cabin boy cry for his mom as he walks the play. Mommy! We send the crew ashore alone. As soon as they're off the boat, we turn the ship around and head home. It's our only option. Doctor, talk some sense into the boy. His name. It's all this money, but it's our own. Tonight there's nothing that can be done except to sleep. Tomorrow we use the map to bait them to the shore, and then we head home. Good night, gentlemen. And return to the boat before the captain wakes up. He lets the key to be on purpose. Slip into a dingy, and we're ashore. We fast before the break of day. We'll harm you. You and harm old Ben Gunn. We'll proceed in five years. My heart is sore for conversation. Conversation, fat. And cheese. Cheese. If you come back to the boat, I'll give you some. The squire's doctor. She's with her dinner every night. Squire's in doctor's, says you. All I have for dinner is goats and berries. You're a gentleman, lad. So I'm a gentleman ship. Yes. At least with now, we sail for the King of England. How did you end up here? I was on captain's ship. We buried the treasure, and we made a map. That's the very map we made. Then we sailed away. Maybe he'll come back for it. I was. That ship got taken by another ship, flying pirate collars. We circled back to dig up the treasure, but we couldn't find the treasure because we didn't have the map. So what did you do? We walked around in circles until one day all the hands on a board. They said, Ben Gunn, you buried that treasure. You can find it on your own. And they left me here for round. We thought a gentleman would do what said you. You got a squire on that ship? Oh, yes. A squire, and a doctor, and a captain, and a crew. Who tells the Ben Gunn war with any job? Any job at all for a rind of cheese? All the treasure I will pay for cheese and gold? Come up to my cave. Right up there. I have pearls as big as Oscar Jags. My word. I don't know what you're talking about by a Wilson squire and doctor. Everything's set. Or except that one, Matthew. Very good. But who has the map? Jim's mother. This is a woman. M'lady. Who is this ship? Who is that telling me? Have you gone to shore without the map? You can't leave the... Margaret? Take my sword. You may need it. We'll meet back here before sundown. What about me, captain? Well, you already with a weapon. Just in case. You're a woman. M'lady. The squire will protect you. Aye aye, captain. Guy of flashing can't pull me away cause the sea, she's a call in my name. No treasure's so great as the crashing waves cause the sea, she's a call in my name. Knee of all people. I only got one leg, see. I will only slow you down. I've noticed your keen sense of direction, Long John. We need a good navigator on shore. I'm pointing to you, Jim. And the map is dry. Jim, you were worried about you. I got you, boy, nice. Give me the map and we'll be on our way. Take one more step forward and your cabin boy will suffer at the end of my night. Now just do as you're told, boy, and I won't hurt you. Just walk forward. Just follow the map. See, Jim and I, we're gonna find that treasure. It's gonna be ours. You, captain, doctor, you're gonna walk the other way now. Now you hear me. You are not to touch a hair on that boy's head. You can have your treasure, but I want him returned to us safe once you find it. What's safe? I'll manage walking this. That's just so great as the crashing of life. Cause the sea, she's a calling. Seat fair enough, cause the sea, she's a calling my name. Pirate ship now. We're waiting for Long John to come back with our treasure. Don't worry, I'll get you out of this. How? I don't see any way. Where's your sword? I left it below this. Where exactly? Under my belt. Sure. What shall we do with this land lover first? Cut his fingernail. Down to David Jones Walker. Important man. A rich man. He could have you sent to the stocks when the ship docks. All the more reason to look the way. True. True, but it would be unlucky to send him to the depths now or anchored in shallow water. Don't we want to wait until we set sail? We don't care. Do it now. That's right. This crew doesn't believe in luck, do you? Captain Firebeard. He was another story. He would spit three times off the deck. Anybody said goodbye. He would never force a man to walk the plank of land in sight. You? It's hello? Goodbye is all over the place. We have bananas on board. We let the port with them. Captain Firebeard would never stand for that. We set sail on a Friday. And this morning, this time came up red. Shiver me timbers. I like the sound of this. And of all unlucky things to have a woman on deck, it's quite progressive, but so unlucky. When I heard there was a woman on board, I thought that she would sit right in the middle of the ocean and we'd all be cooking the fishes. Who's the woman? Is it you? There's no woman here. It could be any one of us. It could all be sisters, mothers, daughters. It could be you, Israel. Or you, William. You're captain now. Untie this man immediately. Lower that power flag out once and replace it with a flag of England. Other pirates will be looking here. To up on the Hispaniola to leave. What are we waiting for? An old cook with a crutch to come back with a few gold pieces? You. Follow my orders now. Aye aye, captain. We are britches. Not without a share for myself. You don't deserve it, any piece of it. As soon as we find a port, we're putting you and your crew in jail for mutiny. No, captain. I report back to duty. I'll be your chef again, aye? No. We have a new chef. His name is Ben Dunn. And he will be serving us all the cheese we want. Over in the brig and the other pirates, too. No, you. They all maroon themselves when they found out they couldn't stand their lust to have a lady captain. Mother, is that you? Jim! What an adventure we've had! Who picked up a new crew in another port? Not Jim. I knew Ben had the treasure. I tricked you. And I kidnapped you, so I guess we're even. But it's not fair that you stand trial for mutiny. You're the best friend I've ever had. The ship is docked. The sail is short, except Ben Dunn. He's keeping watch, but you can't see it. I can't. I can't. It's a real shame, Maddie. It's a shame to be locked up like this, away from the food or the freedom. You have the key there. I do. I'm sorry. I truly am. I never meant to hurt anyone. Not anyone at all. Be a friend now, Jim. I'm off that door. After the day comes that I can help you, I will. All you need to do is say my name, and Old Long John Silver will come, hobbling aboard to help out his good friend, Jimmy. You won't be fired anymore, will you? You won't steal? From now on, my course will be an honest one. Oh, this is why. Shiver me timbers. I'm glad that happened to me. I took that before I promised not to steal. Here, you take it. No. You may need it. You have to buy food. All right. Then here, take Captain Flint. Leave her good and put her below deck when there's any women around for you. You may be needing a mate or a captain. Who'd you think would come hobbling along with Old Long John Silver? We will see each other again. Won't we, Mr. Silver? Certainly we will, Maddie. Certainly we will. Well, make along through the short. We made a good cruise home. All of us had an ample share of the treasure. We used wisely. We were foolishly according to our natures. Captain Smollett is now retired, you see? He's done got a thousand pounds, which he spends more often than we do. To that crystalline. The worst dreams I ever have when I hear the surf boong arounds coasts. Or is there upright in my bed with a sharp voice? Captain Flint ringing in my ears. He's in the ring!