Lord of the Flies

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"Brilliant direction, incredible acting and a musical score that elevates this production into an extraordinary experience.”
- Theatre Matters ★★★★★

“A no-holds-barred, classically brilliant production.”
- What’s The Show? ★★★★★

“A bold independent production. The lamentably short season ought to sell out, so snap up a ticket while you can.”
- Limelight ★★★★½

“Wright’s Lord of the Flies is a thrillingly accomplished production, going beyond modernising a familiar text: it unsettles the assumptions through which we understand it.”
- Melbourne Stage Review

“Steven Mitchell Wright helms a masterful and deeply disturbing insight into the human condition. Lord of the Flies continues to resonate long after you leave the theatre.”
- The Blurb

When a plane crashes and a group of boys find themselves alone on a remote island, they begin, with youthful optimism and a sense of adventure, to build order from the chaos. They make rules, elect leaders, and imagine a world where fairness and cooperation will keep them safe. But order is fragile.

What starts with hope quickly descends into rivalry, loyalty tests and power struggles. Fear creeps in. Imagination becomes threat. And in the absence of oversight and consequence, instincts begin to outweigh ideals.

In this fresh, highly physical staging of Nigel Williams’ adaptation of Lord of the Flies, award-winning director Steven Mitchell Wright (MEDEA: Out of the Mouths of Babes, Ghosts) leads an ensemble of performers through a visceral retelling of…