(*Some spoilers*) I was confused in the first half hour of this, having mashed up the plots of Kindapped and Treasure Island in my mind, but once I was un-confused, all was well! Fantastically creative set with lights for stars (full constellations infact): a revolving stage doubling up as be-sailed ship with rigging! and hidden, treasure containing tunnels (or are they?)
Slight tweaking of this dark story with Jim (Jemima) Hawkins and a couple of comic female sailors and a female doctor, but the revelation of this is Arthur Darvill as evil Long John Silver. Rory is evil!!! Tho the true star of the play is the parrot...and the wigs...
Expecting more of a pantomime, this is actually quite a terrifying story by Robert Louis Stevenson, of pirates, morality, hidden gold and Grannies. Comedy is added through the crew assembling for the ship, and in the gullibility and foppish class snobbery of Squire Trelawney. A bit slow to start with, the story picked up once they were sea bound, creating wonderfully the tiered decks of a ship on stage. Story was still a bit draggy at points but bounced to great set pieces and potentially pieces of eight?!!! Worth watching for realising that the story you think you know, you actually don't, and all those classic pirate names and lines (plus *evil* Rory!)
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