Hello, I'm Patsy. If you've seen the National Theatre's Treasure Island,
you might recognise me as Jim/Jemima Hawkins.
You're Jim Hawkins.
Grandma would hate you if you were a pirate.
We're in strange times, so I thought it might be fun to dress up like a pirate.
Pirates had their own set of rules and code of conduct,
their own lifestyle.
There is no wrong or right way of dressing up as a pirate so you can wear
whatever you think your pirate would wear.
Let your imaginations run wild in what your pirate would be like.
I also want to remind everyone or tell you if you didn't know this already,
that women were also pirates back in the day.
There were quite a few famous female pirates,
which is sort of surprising.
People don't usually think of pirates as female,
but there were some ladies and some girls who sailed the seven seas.
I first thought about what do we typically think about when we think of pirates and
what they wear, and I instantly thought of stripy tops.
If you don't have a stripy top. It doesn't really matter.
A white t-shirt will do, or a black t-shirt, and somehow
I don't know why I found me a hip flask because pirates' favourite drink was
something called Grog. Grog is made up of rum,
water, lemon juice and sugar. Now for me,
I'm not a huge fan of those ingredients.
I'm going to put some orange juice in this
hip flask.
I really wanted a pirate sword,
so I'm sure you can find some cardboard somewhere in your house.
I used a black felt tip to, to create an outline.
I'm going to cut it out and then what I'm going to do is wrap the blade in
aluminium foil.
You can find that in your kitchen and just colour the rest of that.
The handle in with the black felt tip.
People are a big fan of using either tea towels or an old pillowcase or maybe just
some material that you found lounging around
to either maybe fashion a belt. Oh.
And we can use these maybe as a bandana around your head perhaps.
And so I've decided that my pirate is a fan of jewellery that she might've found
in her plunders, is that the right word? Shiny things.
So I found me some beads and
she's partial to a ring or two.
So I'm going to cover my fingers with rings that I've found in my bedroom.
I have found these old eyeliner pencils in my bedroom.
You might actually have some actual face paints, some black face paint.
You could give yourself a moustache.
I think I'm going to give myself a scar across my cheek.
My pirate's been in the fight. So in Treasure Island,
Long John Silver has a parrot called Captain Flint.
Pieces-of-eight. Pieces-of-eight.
I don't have a parrot, but I did find,
again, there's no specific rules. This is how I want my pirate to be.
I found some friends in my house.
I found a little dog or a little Snoopy. I might attach them to my shoulder.
They were amazing navigators and they could use the sun or they could use the
stars to help them navigate.
There's a great scene in Treasure Island in our production where you see
Long John Silver teach Jim Hawkins, how to read the stars,
which is beautiful.
I thought maybe they would have a telescope.
So I found some paper or some card and, and you can,
can see you guys. Can you see my eye?
Very close.
What pirates wore were basically things that they found in their adventures.
So if you go into your wardrobe and please ask for permission,
your parent's wardrobe or your sibling's wardrobe,
you can create a very fun, surprising
costume for yourself.
I think we have all of the ingredients that I found in my own home.
I'm sure you'll find better, more exciting things,
but I'm going to go away now for a moment and put it all together.
Come a bit closer. You can see my weapon of choice. It's my sword,
my trusty sword. I've got all my rings that I've plundered.
I've had time to look that up in the dictionary, that is the correct word.
I've got my bandana on to protect me from the sun.
I've got Snoopy as my sidekick attached to my shoulder and of course have my
trusty telescope
and a much needed hip flask full of orange juice.
There is only one final ingredient.
You need to become a fully-fledged pirate,
and that is what we call, excuse me.
And that is what we call pirate attitude.
I can give you two little pieces of advice and that is to call everyone matey.
Matey will be your favourite word,
and most importantly is to work on your arr!
If you can do that, you're golden.
Arr!