Yarrrrrr. Forget Jacob Marley and Sugarplum Fairies. What DCist wants for Christmas this year is pirates.

And Round House is more than happy to oblige. Their production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (a new version by Broadway vet Ken Ludwig) fully embraces the pirate fascination that our culture has embraced even before Johnny Depp made the word “savvy” his own.

The story is one familiar to many who grew up with the tale — a group of seamen set off to find treasure — a famous pirate’s map has found its way into the hands of a young boy. Little do they know that their crew has been infiltrated by former members of that captain’s gang, and the story becomes a face-off between the pirates and the treasure-seekers, as well as a coming of age tale about the youngster Jim Hawkins (Maribeth Fritzky).

The work starts out a little slow, with an anemic opening sword fight, and a few early scenes that aren’t as attention grabbing as they should be (though Stephen F. Schmidt does a nice job setting the tone as an illustriously-garbed Captain Flint). But things really pick up steam once Long John Silver (Mark Mineart) shows up on the scene.