Imagine you’re a pirate living in that well-known haven for pirates, Port Royal, Jamaica, in the late 17th Century, and that you are a member of the local amateur dramatic society. Your Queen has demanded that the next play your Society performs should be about Pirates and be by William Shakespeare, who’s been dead now for just over 50 years. What are you going to do? You might well take the Third Folio of his works, published just a few years ago in 1664 and find all the plays that contain pirates or references to pirates: there are six - Hamlet, Antony & Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Henry VI pt 2 and Pericles.

To decide which is the best play to do you might ask the members of your amateur troupe to each take a play and rehearse a scene from it.

Well, that is exactly what the Port Royal Amateur Thespian Society has done and on 2 and 4 October you can join them as they see for themselves the extracts from these six plays. Which one, if any, will they choose to satisfy the Pirate Queen?

As part of the Fermanagh Live festival, and in preparation for their Royal Shakespeare Company’s Open Stages Project production in February 2015, Enniskillen Amateur Dramatic Society is taking on the mantle of the Pirates of Port Royal to showcase extracts from seven Shakespeare plays, and it all takes place in 45 minutes. It’s free and on at 1pm in the Enniskillen Hotel on October 2 (a change from the advertised venue) and at 2pm in the Buttermarket on Saturday, October 4.