Pirate's Dinner Adventure Review:
By Joy Atkinson (Summer Intern)

Are you looking for a different way to spend your evenings? Have your days been filled up and your nights left vacant? Well, the Pirate Dinner Adventure will cure your night and dinner boredom and indecision. Delicious dinner and exciting theatrical experiences are just waiting to be enjoyed. Pirate's is located in the heart of International Drive in Orlando, Florida. It is in walking distance from most of the hotels in the area.

Doors open at 6:30, but the adventure doesn't start until around 7:45-8. However, there are appetizers are available for the munching while you wait. The advantage of coming early is that you can look around at everything they have. There is a museum which gets you acclimated to the lives of pirates, an interesting gift shop to browse around, the galley saloon to quench your thirst, and interesting decor to admire.

There is a large room that contains all of these things. There were many people doing the exact same thing as myself, which would be eating and looking. A pirate then began requesting audience members to perform a variety of things. Then the princess was brought out and the show began without much of a formal introduction. There was dancing and a fire-eater for our enjoyment until the pirates came and changed the festival from carefree to terror. I really enjoyed the transitions; they did a wonderful job.

I boarded the ship and was assigned to a pirate because I was their hostage. It was very thematic. Everyone wore a headband the color of his or her pirate. The food was brought out in progression over the adventure. There was much more audience participation then
I expected. The audience is an important member of the play. Different audience members can volunteer to be involved in different ways. I believe this helped involve each individual person into the play, also making it much more fun.

The show itself involved lot of acrobatic moves, humor, some 'fighting', competition, and some special effects. I never had difficulty understanding what was being said on the ship nor seeing the stage. After the show there was more time to shop and look around at things that might not of been lit up before. Also it is a great time for the people that get there late to enjoy the shops and museums that they might not of had time to see before hand. To reveal much more about the adventure would be saying too much, but hopefully I have said enough to wet your appetites on what to expect.

Word of the wise, bring a willing attitude. Part of the fun is being involved and wanting to be there. The more fun you have, the more fun the performers will have, and the more you will enjoy the experience. A nice circle, if I do say so myself