Lord of the Flies

Synopsis

Following a plane crash on an uninhabited island, the story follows the actions of a group of adolescent schoolboys as they battle against the elements for survival and supremacy. The island becomes a dark and dangerous place, where dreams turn to nightmares. A stunning tale of bullying, power, identity and violence.

Our Review:

Paul Lucas-Scott - 24 February 2012

I remember reading this book when I was at school and marvelling at how vividly William Golding chronicled the rapid decent into savagery of a group of boys stranded on a deserted island after their wartime evacuation plane crashes. Sell a Door Theatre Company have taken that immensely powerful text and translated it into an equally potent and terrifically physical piece of theatre.

To emphasise the physicality of the performance, the island setting is relocated into the home of teenage macho posturing – the school gymnasium. The youthful cast are surrounded by punch bags of various sizes, climbing ropes and four wooden staircases which, with the addition of a few bags of sand, suddenly become very clever representations of both the beach and the vantage point that the boys christen Castle Rock.

The cast is usually made up of nine but, at the performance I attended Daniel Ash, who should plays Percival, was missing. However, the remaining eight covered his abs...

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