lord of the flies

Chilling - Freddie Watkins as Jack, in Lord of the Flies

| Matthew Bourne's Lord of the Flies |comes to the Birmingham Hippodrome from May 14-17, as part of the International Dance Festival Birmingham.

The final production of the Lord of the Flies will be staged at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle in November and will feature a cast of both professional and new dancers, all picked from auditions to be held in the North East later this year.

| Lord of the Flies is at the Liverpool Playhouse from February 2-6.

Now it comes to the North East where hundreds of boys auditioned to take part in Lord of the Flies at the Theatre Royal.

- Btu Lcl New Adventures and Re:Bourne's - the charitable arm of Matthew Bourne's company New Adventures - will stage a production of Lord Of The Flies, based on the classic novel by William Golding in November at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle.

The drama students from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, who are training to be teachers, performed Lord of the Flies by William Golding for GCSE pupils from South Wales.

The package is a generous one, but rather over-eggs the pudding for a narrative designed to explore isolation and loss, and the recipe that worked so well for Lord Of The Flies doesn't appease the taste buds here.

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A stage adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding, will feature professional members of Matthew Bourne's New Adventures dance company alongside North East recruits, some of them completely new to dance.

* COUNCIL leader Mike Whitby revealed that his favourite book - and the first one he would like to see placed on the shelf at the new Library of Birmingham - is William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

The fuselage of an aeroplane, charred debris and scattered cargo was made by Belgrade Production Services for Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's recent London production of The Lord Of The Flies.

Major writers including Ernest Hemingway and Lord of the Flies author William Golding would also have flunked.

TO AN audience of mostly families and friends, Lord of the Flies Revisited was an interpretation of William Golding's novel, rather than a verbatim performance.

Last week she told an interviewer that she had been at the premiere of The Beach and someone had said it was like Lord of the Flies, even though he hadn't read Lord of the Flies.