xc et les revoltes du Bounty

Ever since the scandal that was Madame Butterlight (G went to one of the sites promoting it and gave horrible reviews, bad I know but sooo satisfying) we have been wary of going to plays for free. So when G asked me if I wanted to go see a play named "Mais que sont les revoltes du Bounty devenus?" I asked him first what it was about. I didn't want to spend another 2-hours trying not to fall asleep in the theater. In english, the title translates to "But what ever happened to the mutineers of the Bounty?". Even in english I didn't have a clue of what the play was about.

It turns out the the Bounty is not this:

(and I don't like this, I don't like coconut) but was actually a ship sent from England to Tahiti to get breadfruit plants to feed the slaves since it was cheaper than, well, bread. And it turns out that Marlon Brando starred in a film about this very voyage called "Mutiny on the Bounty". So this story is actually real and well known at that. Why I didn't know about it must either be because I've never studied English history nor have I ever retained anything during the history classed that I've ever taken.

Anyhoos...so last Saturday we forced our asses of the warm bed to take a Tram and a bus only to reach the theater 2 minutes after the piece has started. But they were nice, they let us in anyway.

It was a one man show, the man wanting to start a project revolving around the history of the Bounty and so in between calls from his mother, ex-wife and daughter, he tells us the story of the mutiny that happened as well as the lives of the mutineers when they decided to live on then deserted Pitcairn island.

The story itself was already very interesting and the way the guy told the story made me even want to know more. I have to admit that I didn't understand everything he said and despite all the Tahitian names thrown here and there, I was able to follow the gist of the story. I thought I didn't like one-man shows (read Madame Butterlight) but this one is an exception. The guy was very very good and very impressive. Just by telling the story he was able to make us enter into the chaotic world of starting a new life on a deserted island. I even wanted to do more research after seeing the piece.

If I knew about the Bounty before seeing this play, I think I might have paid to go see it...and that should already say a lot about it.

2 days after, we again had free tickets but this time for a concert/theater piece. I'll try to write about it next time.

But for now....

peace and luv,
xc