Lord of the Flies

Overview

Boys, prepare to be reminded of your school adolescent days, both happy, and not so.

The Auckland Theatre Company brings to life Nigel Williams' theatre adaption of Nobel Prize-winning Lord of the Flies to the Maidment Theatre this September.

Directed by ATC artistic director Colin McColl, with an impressive young all-male cast lead by Leon Wadham (Go Girls, Shopping) and Jordan Mooney (Anne Boleyn, The Heretic), Lord of the Flies is a story of power, survival and the struggles of todays’ adolescent.

A group of school boys become stranded on an island after a massive disaster. The story quickly evolves into a battle of power as the boys struggle for survival and existence. It’s not long before the inevitable happens when you have a group of adolescent boys in one room. Rebellion and chaos erupts in the survivor-style island adventure.

The boys are entangled in a clash between the civilised and the wild where by day the boys exist in paradise, but as night falls their dreams are taken over by a terrifying beast. The boys begin to take sides, some choose the peaceful and co-operative, others take the unruly approach, and it’s not long before the battle becomes every-man-for-himself.

Lord of the Flies investigates many issues that remain central to the lives of today’s adolescents – rules, morals, peer pressure, bullying and gang rivalry. This show opens the spring theatre season with power and boldness.