These pirates of the Caribbean were real women
Bonny, Read had opposite views, morals
By ELISSA BARNARD Arts Reporter
Wed. May 19 - 8:28 AM
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When Karen Bassett played Beauty's sister in Beauty and the Beast, she looked longingly at the male actors sword fighting on the Neptune stage.
"I loved it. I watched these fights every night; it was the best part of the show. I knew I would like to do it. At that time I thought, 'Yeah, but there's no plays with women fighting.' "
So she wrote one.
This week Bassett and Francine Deschepper are fighting on stage in Heroine, Bassett's historical drama about two real-life figures, 18th century pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read, imprisoned together in 1722 in a Jamaican jail.