1 November 2024

We're delighted to announce that we will be touring The Pirate Queen to the Minack Theatre in Cornwall next summer.

From Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil – the writers of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon – The Pirate Queen is an epic musical adventure which celebrates legendary Irish chieftain Grace O’Malley and asks how far you’d go to protect what you love.

Director Katie Porter said: "It’s always exciting to see shows where women are in positions of power and have struggled to overcome the limitations placed on them by society. As an Irish woman, it is doubly exciting to have a show steeped in Irish history and culture and I’m thrilled to bring that to the Cornish coast at the Minack with Sedos next summer."

This is the second time Sedos has had an opportunity to tour a show to the Minack Theatre, one of the most beautiful open-air theatres in the world, and we’re looking for a big, diverse cast to share this exciting experience (show week 28 June-4 July). Auditions will be held in February and the full audition notice will be released in due course.

Katie is joined on The Pirate Queen creative team by musical director Oscar Denihan, who was musical director for our 2023 production of Sunshine on Leith, and experienced producers Lizzie Levett and Pippa Kyle. Visit the show page to find out who else is involved – more names will be added to the team over the next few weeks.

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A Swell Party at the Minack. Sedos will stage The Pirate Queen there in 2025

Sedos’s 2019 production of A Swell Party at the Minack. Picture by Alan Denison

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