![]() ![]() The diversity of the cast does bring the story bang up to date, adding layers of complexity to the fraught relationships which develop as the group descend into violent chaos. It’s perhaps why, despite strong performances across the cast and some visually arresting moments, this co-production between the Belgrade and Leeds Playhouse, directed by Amy Leach, is curiously unmoving. In Golding’s 1954 classic, an omniscient narrator takes us into the minds of the various characters, revealing their insecurities and flaws slowly as we get to know them. Modern staging of Golding’s tale of savagery and barbarism opens in Coventry.Īdapting ‘Lord of the Flies’ for the stage is a challenge: the novel contains so much beautiful prose describing the island on which a group of British school children are stranded following an aeroplane crash. ![]()
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