By William Golding
Adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams
After a group of schoolboys survive a massive plane crash, what starts as a classic desert island adventure quickly becomes a struggle for survival as superstition and immorality sees the community slide into a darkly sinister world.
Created by the same team as last season’s The Crucible.
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"A THRILLING DESCENT INTO HORROR
Timothy Sheader’s staging of Lord of the Flies is nothing less than a triumph... this theatrical version is in a class of its own
"Guaranteed to grip older children and adults alike from start to finish... UNMISSABLE"
Daily Mail
"... A CINEMATIC SPECTACLE... Jon Bausor’s eye-catching set confirms him as one of the most arresting designers around"
Sunday Times
“Timothy Sheader’s production… has the accumulating force of horror needed to pull off this story of schoolboy air-disaster survivors on an uninhabited island, who briefly taste a paradise that is soon lost as they descend into savagery”
Sunday Express
Independent
“TREMENDOUS… the striking thing here is the handling of so many hot topics – peer pressure, bullying and gang rivalry – in an essentially ‘period’ but contemporary-seeming set up”
The Times CRITICS CHOICE
"...brilliantly staged... astonishing performances
IT IS A REMARKABLE EVENING"
Evening Standard
Creative team
- Director – Timothy Sheader
- Co-Director – Liam Steel
- Designer – Jon Bausor
- Composer & Sound Score – Nick Powell
- Lighting Designer – James Farncombe
- Sound Designer – Mike Walker
- Casting Director – Natalie Gallacher for Pippa Ailion Casting
- Fight Director – Kate Waters
- Voice Coach & Text Consultant – Barbara Houseman
- Associate Designer – Matthew Hellyer
The cast
- Piggy – George Bukhari
- Jack – James Clay
- Bill – Sam Clemmett
- Henry – Theo Cowan
- Roger – Matt Ingram
- Maurice – Jordan Maxwell
- Sam – James McConville
- Eric – Stuart Matthews
- Ralph – Alistair Toovey
- Simon – Joshua Williams
- Perceval – Harrison Sansostri
- Perceval – Spike White
- Perceval – Adam Thomas Wright
- Military Officer – Ken Christiansen
