Kip Williams has turned casting expectations on their head in Sydney Theatre Company’s production of the violent classic
As a gay man with a disability, Daniel Monks is drawing on his life to find empathy for a child with unrelieved pain. In Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Lord of the Flies, the actor is playing Roger, a vocal and violent 11-year-old who appears to be a sociopath, enabling authoritarian rule over a group of boys who survive a plane crash on an island.
The actor has found allusions to Roger’s unspecified past trauma in both William Golding’s original novel and Nigel Williams’s stage adaptation, now being directed by Kip Williams. “In the play, Roger is the only character who refers to anything sexual in tone,” says Monks during a rehearsal break, the single walking crutch he uses on and off stage by his side.
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