What makes us civilised. We’re familiar with the pictures and news clips of “child soldiers“ and “street gangs” around the world and their capacity for brutality and violence as societies struggle with questions of personal freedom and the need for intervention to prevent a descent into chaos. This throws up questions: Are we are all animals at heart? Is it nurture, or the rule of law, that civilises us?
Based on William Golding’s classic novel,LORD OF THE FLIES showing at Cleveland St Theatre from 1-6 Nov is a disturbing tale of conflict and savagery as it explores what happens to a group of young people who are forced into a new world where they have to create their own society, structures, norms, standards and laws and how this leads to unexpected and disturbing experiences. Because this story touches nerves on all these sensitive areas and because it raises a primal fear about our own human nature, LORD OF THE FLIES is both topical and confronting.John O'Hare, Director says "My belief about the play is... the 'Beast' is something inside ourselves, 'Evil' is inside our own natures and comes from human kind." What do you think?

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