Bluenose
By Emil Sher
You’ve never met a pirate ’til you’ve met the likes of us,
We aren’t very likeable: we smell, we cheat, we cuss.
Our motto is so simple and plain for all to see.
What’s yours is ours, what’s ours is ours,
Til the end of eternity.
What happens when three clumsy, colonizing, red-nosed pirates named Ratt, Spatt and Knat haul in a catch called Ku? Bad enough Ku has a different culture, different language and different perspective. Worse still, Ku has a blue nose.
Ratt, Spatt and Knat are three red-nosed pirates whose lives are predictable on the blustering seas until Ku, a confident blue-nosed pirate, washes up on deck. Despite being taken prisoner, Ku refuses to submit to the crew’s we-know-best mindset and attitudes of superiority. Eventually, Ku is able to enlighten some of the pirates, if not all. A swashbuckling, comedic tale about culture clashes and cultural assumptions, Bluenose provides a glimpse of short-sighted, blind greed as it unfolds on the Shark de Triomphe, a cluttered, foul-smelling ship.
