Fourteen-year-old Jim Hawkins is serving ale in The Admiral Benbow Inn -
when suddenly the door slams open and in strides Billy Bones, the
infamous pirate, to change Jim's life forever...
Soon, Jim finds himself on board The Jolly Todger and setting sail
on the high seas. Alongside him, the crew includes Captain Birdseye,
Black Dog, Blue Peter, the one-legged Long John Silver, and a parrot
called Alexa - and their destination: a mysterious tropical paradise in
the Caribbean named Treasure Island. Or Skeleton Island. Depends who you
ask.
This riotously chaotic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's beloved
Treasure Island is a collaboration between John Nicholson (The Hound
of the Baskervilles) and the physical-comedy theatre company Le Navet
Bete, with their four actors playing dozens of characters.
Following the company's hilarious, hit adaptations of Dracula: The
Bloody Truth and The Three Musketeers, it premiered at the Plymouth
Athenaeum in 2019, and in a Black Spot-defying production at the Exeter
Northcott Theatre in 2020, before touring nationally.
If you're looking for a rip-roaring, swashbuckling, family-friendly
retelling of a classic story to perform with your theatre company or
drama group, then X marks this spot.
