Published: July 28, 2019
Roslyn Packer theatre, Sydney
Mia Wasikowska and Contessa Treffone provide no easy answers in a stage production that flips Golding’s classic novel on its head
British writer William Golding’s 1954 novel Lord of the Flies is famously the story of a group of schoolboys who become ruled by their own violence while stranded on an island in the midst of a nuclear war. Readers and scholars tend to discuss its themes in terms of the darkness inside all human beings, but in Sydney Theatre Company’s new production of Nigel Williams’s stage adaptation, the accent is on masculine forms of control.
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