Leonard's Bones

Everyone’s searching for a hero ... we’ve found his Bones.

In 2007 Pointed Arrow embarked on a journey to dig up some bones. For two weeks along the South Coast of England, from Lands End to Hastings, we became wandering players in a big red postal van. As we travelled we created the myth of a pirate, Leonard Le-Bec, performed stories of his adventures, and left clues to his whereabouts.

The project was made up of four short stories performed spontaneously as we travelled, an hour long documentary show created after the joinery to tell the story, and a multimedia review installation designed to share our thoughts and reflections of the experience.

“Like Scooby Doo meets Summer Holiday ... This theatrical travelogue explores the process of storytelling and the mythologies that create our personal and national identities.

Performing as they travelled England's south coast, Pointed Arrow Theatre Company has been on a quest to find the bones of the pirate Leonard Le-Bec, a figure of no fixed character into whom the actors distil their own hopes and anxieties, while physically recreating some of the myths that forged his legend.”

The Scotsman, 2007, of our performance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.