Pirates Of The Curry Bean

I played the part of Deadeye Dinghy for our P7 show. It was a brilliant and funny script and all the hard work paid off when we did 4 successful shows. I would reccommend this show to other schools. (Posted on 28/04/2012)

My year and year 5 are doing this play at the moment, and it's great fun! I have so far loved watching rehearsals, and here are some examples of the characters: Chloe being an angry main character, lauren wearing a pink beard, Lucy being Loopy, Liam being a cat, Alex being a mummy's admiral, (no offense to Izzy,) Izzy being a COD, and me being a native! Love this play, much better than last years...Ye Ha... Alestar's awful American accent still haunts my nightmares... (Posted on 24/04/2012)

I haven't performed it yet but it looks amazing and i would love to be Pearl or Liza!

LOVE Pirates! (Posted on 20/04/2012)

The audience and all the actors had loads of fun. After practicing so much it has come out wonderfully. It has been really fun to go to practices.
Awesome !!!!!!!!! (Posted on 05/04/2012)

We have been rehearsals for once a week since the middle of January and we performed the 'Pirates of the Curry Bean' last night at a local theatre. Our students who performed this production were aged between 5 to 13 years old and this script suited them perfectly. It was great fun to rehearse, easy to stage and costume and all the sound effects and music were taken care of. So simple!
The audience loved it! Lots of laughter throughout (and a few groans!) Will certainly be ordering a Musicline script again. Well Done to Craig and Musicline for writing and offering this service. (Posted on 01/04/2012)

This is the most amazing play ever. I am playing Liza Periwinkle and the lines are so easy to learn. Our Primary 7 year consists of 3 classes and has about 80 children. We expanded our cast so people who wanted a speaking part could get one.

One of the best shows ever done by our leavers! (Posted on 25/03/2012)

We're doing it at my school. It is really funny. I'm only 8 years old. I'm the narrator; Deadeye Dinghy. (Posted on 29/02/2012)

Thank you for a really entertaining play. It went down really well with a cross section of parents. It was so adaptable in terms of the range of pupils that could take part and sets and costumes were really easy. I directed 90 children with the support of 3 great class teachers and it was the easiest play I have instigated in 22 yaers. Will there be a Pirates 2? (Posted on 12/01/2012)

I played Liza in the play for the year 6 leavers gala. It was really fun dressing up as a pirate and we made lots of people laugh! We had a whole lesson where we made the Lumbago maps, they looked great! Overall I think it was the best leavers gala the school had done and like I said it made people laugh A LOT. (Posted on 17/12/2011)

We have just performed this concert with our Key Stage 2 classes. Year 6 took the leading roles. All of the children enjoyed it. The songs are catchy and easy to learn. The script is hilarious and our children really rose to the challenge of mastering "comic timing". The parents absolutely loved it . They laughed from beginning to end and many have said it is the best Christmas show that we have ever produced! Praise indeed...I highly recommend this play. (Posted on 14/12/2011)

We just finished our summer workshop with "Pirates of the Curry Bean". Every kid had a ball and just loved doing the show! The audience had as much fun as the kids and couldn't stop laughing. Everyone loved the music and dances...just a superlative show in every way with a great story line too! (Posted on 01/08/2011)

A perfect end to the primary phase ! My Year 6 class, colleagues, whole school and parents loved the whole hilarious show. I doubt I will ever be able to top this performance. Thank You! (Posted on 22/07/2011)

This show was perfectly pitched for upper junior children, with enough cameo roles for a large Year 6 cohort all to have their 5 minutes of fame. The script was hilarious and gave the children real confidence that what they were performing was truly entertaining. We will definitely be purchasing more Craig Hawes productions; they're worth their weight in gold! The songs were written in children's voice ranges and were easy to learn, making the production far less arduous and far more enjoyable than it usually is! We have had nothing but praise from audience members. A fantastic play; I thoroughly recommend it. (Posted on 21/07/2011)

Our daughter played Redbeard last night in her school's Year 6 leavers performance and the show was fantastic ! Laughs aplenty from start to finish and abundent scope for hilarious casting - we particularly liked the wimpy, posh Admiral and of course Redbeard ! A fabulous show enjoyed by both the cast and parents ! (Posted on 20/07/2011)

A great show enjoyed by all of the Year 3 and 4 performers as well as staff and parents.

The Children will remember this play for a long time.

The sound effects were great and added to the humour of the play. We saw a different side to our children. We have a few budding actors!

Thank you!

(Posted on 14/07/2011)

We loved doing 'Pirates'! We had a cast of 84, 3 to 11 year olds fully involved and most of them were girls, as our little boys are only in Kindergarten at the moment. The jokes were great and the soundtrack made the whole performance professional yet straightforward to do. A fabulous romp, greatly enjoyed by us all. Thank you! (Posted on 10/07/2011)

A great show full of fun and appalling puns! Lots of opportunities for visual humour and some really catchy music. I was anxious that the Nigerian audience wouldn't get the jokes, but I needn't have worried - they loved it! (Posted on 09/07/2011)

On this production you work your very own socks off but have a great day rehersing and making the props! This takes you from London to Lumbago (in the sea of Sciatica). In this play i played the pirate 'Broadside' and i really enjoyed it, and i hope i get to do this again!

Hope you like it
(Posted on 07/07/2011)

I love this play especially that I will be doing it. Our rehearsals have been great. This is the best play ever performed by KS2. (Posted on 30/06/2011)

The children could not stop laughing throughout the rehearsals. It is a perfect choice for older key stage 2 children.
We managed to perform it with only 22 cast members as it was easily adapted.
The songs are fun and easy to learn. It is very well written with excellent stage directions and ideas for props. Overall a huge success and the parents seemed to love it - "Best one in years!"
I would definitely reccomend this to all Primary (and younger Secondary) Schools. (Posted on 19/06/2011)

I think it is the funniest thing in the galaxy. I love it! (Posted on 08/06/2011)

Fantastically funny show that all our pupils & parents simply adored! (Posted on 16/02/2011)