Opening tonight at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough is Neville’s Island by well-known playwright Tim Firth, whose credits include Our House, Sign of the Times, and the stage adaptation of Calendar Girls.
Commissioned by Alan Ayckbourn, and first staged at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round at Westwood in June 1992, Neville’s Island has since continued to be shown at theatres throughout the world.
The play centres around four out-of-condition, middle-aged businessmen sent off on a team building exercise in the Lake District. They succeed in being the first people ever to get shipwrecked on an island on Derwentwater. Bound in fog, menaced by wildlife and cut off from the world, this obligatory middle-class exercise turns into a carnival of recriminations, French cricket and sausages.
What should have been a bonding process for Gordon, Angus, Roy and Neville turns into a muddy, bloody fight for survival. Because when night settles in, strange things happen out in the wilds. And what took place on Neville’s Island that foggy November weekend none of this particular middle-management team would ever forget…
Sounds like Lord of the Flies for grown ups! Neville’s Island runs to August 27 and tickets can be purchased on line at the theatre web site.
Planning to see it? The blog would welcome a review.
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