Scottish Dance Theatre, Pirates! The Place

Following on from the success of last year's Snowed In, this year The Place offering for this festive season is the swashbuckling adventure Pirates!, brought to London by Scottish Dance Theatre, under the direction of Joan Clevillé, who devised the show – his first for younger audiences – in collaboration with the dancers.

A dance-theatre piece for the whole family, Pirates! follows two friends, Daisy and Tom, as they enter a fantasy world ruled by Captain Sandy Rogers and her crew. There they go on all manner of adventures featuring zombies, strange underwater creatures and finally an all-out duel with the wicked Admiral O'Greed.

This is a boisterous show, where the involving story is told through theatre, speech and dance, the latter relying on the physical ability of SDT's dancers. Here they are in rehearsal:

Pirates! premiered at the Dundee Rep Theatre last summer, garnering a raft of four-star reviews, with The Courier describing it as 'exciting, warm-hearted and perfectly inventive'.

Pirates! has an original score by Luke Sutherland and designs by Matthias Strahm, which the Corr Blimey reviewer praised thus: 'there’s a clean beauty to Matthias Strahm’s design which allows the imagination to fill in the gaps.'

Age Guidance: 7-12 but everybody is welcome