Alestes likes to keep her head down while she works as a merchant, couriering deliveries and carrying travelers to destinations across the seas. Only as her travelers gradually become permanent crewmates, she realises her ship has become a floating museum, laboratory, vault of repatriated ‘treasures’, and a chef’s kitchen.
After spending most of her life with the understanding that nothing changes, no matter how hard you fight, Alestes is faced with a choice: Will she use her new network of allies to build safe harbour and potentially a future for her new community, or will she once again put her head down and drown in her sea of excuses…
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Alestes likes to keep her head down while she works as a merchant, couriering deliveries and carrying travelers to destinations across the seas. Only as her travelers gradually become permanent crewmates, she realises her ship has become a floating museum, laboratory, vault of repatriated ‘treasures’, and a chef’s kitchen.
After spending most of her life with the understanding that nothing changes, no matter how hard you fight, Alestes is faced with a choice: Will she use her new network of allies to build safe harbour and potentially a future for her new community, or will she once again put her head down and drown in her sea of excuses…
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Herring & Marnock Esq’s Dictionary of Nautical and Pyratical Terms, 1849: rigging: a term used collectively for all ropes and chains employed to support the masts, yards, and booms of a vessel, cf also ‘a rigged game’: an endeavour in which the odds are unfairly hoisted in one party’s favour
In which a prayer is spoken, old haunts are visited, and threats are made.
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Created by Nemo Martin
Directed by Rafaella Marcus
Written by Morgan Givens with editing by Nemo Martin
Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner
Produced by Lowri Ann Davies, Ian Geers and Production Manager Natasha Johnston
Creative Consultation by Morgan Givens
Historical Consultation by Dr. Nira Wickramasinghe
Sensitivity Consultation by Salt and Sage
Linguistic Consultants Yen Ooi, Rumzi Yousef, and Ella Martin
Featuring
Rebecca Brough as Capt. Alestes
Vic Zander as Baker
Shahan Hamza as Siva
Gigi Zahir as Noor
Ashley Goh as Inez
Naomi Bartoo as Anh
Lowri Ann Davies as Mary
Fay Roberts as William Henry Blair
Additional Voices by Imogen Harris, and Alexander J Newell
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