Pirates is a performance that questions traditional values, balances and polarities of politics and theater. However, the play does not necessarily take the clearest and simplest path. To make the order of the Western world even more visible, the confused acts of violence, passions, outbursts of hatred and anger, resentment and bitterness must be given as much prominence as the dark coincidences and all the small circumstances that lead to defeats or victories.
"The sea smells good around the ship. They must be outside the territorial limits, in the midst of a greater freedom."

Idea, realisation: Showcase Beat Le Mot

Pirates is deviced as a work-in-progress to be developped during 2000, 2001, 2002.  A first presentation was produced in May/June 2001 in co-operation with Von Krahl Theater in Tallinn/Estland supported by Goethe Institut/Tallinn. Pirates is a production by Showcase Beat Le Mot.

"...The audience is also on stage, seated to the right and left of the playing area; everyone sitting in the same boat. Red and green lanterns dangle from the ceiling and mark port and starboard. When the lamps and monitors which also hang from the ceiling are set in swaying motion the audience involuntarily sway with them..."

(taz Hamburg, 17 June 2002,  Marga Wolf, "Nachhaltige Wirkung" Als wahre Allroundtalente entpuppt: Das Talliner Von-Krahl-Theater gastierte mit der Performance "Pirates" auf Kampnagel)