Dawidziak's wife does everything in 'Pirate's Life'

 Sara Showman, wife of PD entertainment critic Mark Dawidziak, who had the same job at the BJ before he was among two dozen BJ-ers who fled north to Cleveland, did everything except sell the tickets for The Largely Literary Theater Company’s newest touring show, “Under the Skull and Cross Bones: A Pirate’s Life for Me,” which will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, at the Cuyahoga Falls Library.  



From left: Sara Showman, Alex Nine, Jim Fippin

Sara didn’t sell tickets because the show is free. Otherwise, she had a hand in about everything.

Writes Mark:

 
 “This one is a mighty effort on Sara's part. She researched it, wrote it, cast it, directed it and made most of the props and costumes. She's really in touch with her inner pirate.
 
Ahoy!
 
Mark



“Under the Skull and Cross Bones”  mixes history and comedy with Showman, Alex J. Nine and Jim Fippin.  It spotlights such pirates as Blackbeard, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Long John Silver and Captain Hook.



The Largely Literary Theater Company was founded by Mark and Sara in 2001 to promote literacy, literature and live theater. The troupe has toured its versions of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and “The Tell-Tale Play,”  a collection of poems and stories by Edgar Allan Poe, to Akron, Cleveland, Columbus and more than 40 other Ohio cities.



Fippin is the former artistic director at Akron’s Coach House Theatre who often appears in Weathervane Playhouse and Ohio Shakespeare Festival productions.

Akron native and University of Akron graduate Nine has acted or directed at most of the theaters in the greater Akron area.