“Pirates Wanted,” an interactive play from Last Call Theatre, gives audience members a taste of buccaneering on an actual tall ship.

Quests take place throughout the top deck of the vessel docked at Long Beach’s Pine Avenue Pier.

Pirating, as evidenced by centuries of stories and one of the greatest theme park rides , has long fascinated. Seafaring and sword fighting imply adventure. Dice games? Bluffing and strategy. And if you’re really lucky, maybe you’ll find a mermaid.

Last Call Theatre , a local interactive-focused performance group, has found a way to give us a taste of buccaneering — without the pesky consequences of being captured by the Royal Navy or succumbing to a rum-induced liver disease.

For one more weekend in Long Beach, theatergoers can live out a mini marauding fa

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