GREENBEARD

Avast, me hearties, what could be more fun for a seasoned narrator than to talk like a pirate for 12 hours? In this happy mash-up of Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Doctor Who, Colby Elliott gives distinctive voices to a number of landlubbers and the crew of the mighty, magical pirate ship THE ARK DE TRIOMPHE. After a close encounter with a Martian space fleet that turns his gray beard green, Captain Sylvestre de Greybagges joins with famed American inventor Frank Benjamin on a high-seas chase while skewering everything from colonialism and the discovery of electricity to Shakespeare, alien abductions, and the Age of Reason. This deft and silly tale is guaranteed to have listeners talking like pirates by its conclusion. B.P. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2024]