Ahoy! Treasure Island at Heidelberg

Ahoy! Treasure Island at Heidelberg

Young Jill Hawkins lives a quiet life by the sea, dreaming of the day she can escape to the world beyond.

The opportunity comes a little sooner than she anticipates when the dying pirate, Billy Bones gives her a map - the only clue to a forgotten island where the treasure of a hundred ships lies waiting.

Ably assisted by the bumbling Dr Livesey and the intrepid Lady Trelawney, Jill sets out to claim the treasure on the far side of the world, but finds herself caught in a web of conspiracy and danger, at the centre of which stands the secretive and disarmingly charismatic Long John Silver.

What follows is an adventure featuring swordfights, dead parrots, sea shanties, pistols and gold as heroes and villains alike race towards … Treasure Island.

Co-Director Ryan Purdey says, “I’m one of the two directors on this year’s Youth production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, alongside the wonderful Christian Dell’Olio.

It’s been a mad few months as we prepare to make sail for Treasure Island, and I can tell you that fresh off the sell-out success of last year’s Wind In The Willows, fellow writer Erich Fordham and I - along with Christian, and all the actors and crew involved this year - have been giving our all to make this year’s show as funny, fresh and engaging as it can be.

I think that what we have on our hands is a real winner; a show that is perhaps a little darker and more mischievous than last year’s, but just as entertaining as always.  

Heidelberg Theatre’s audiences rightly expect nothing but the very best, and I speak for all involved with 'Treasure Island' when I say that it will be a blast.

HTC Youth presents

TREASURE ISLAND

By Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Ryan Purdey & Eric Fordham

Directed by Christian Dell’Olio & Ryan Purdey

7pm - Dec 11,12, 17,18,19.

2pm - Dec 12 & 19.

Tickets:   $10 Adults  $5 Children

Bookings: online at: www.htc.org.au.

Box Office – 9457 4117 or at the door.

Audience:  Families including children from 6 yrs. (running time:  approx 80 minutes)

Venue: The Heidelberg Theatre Company, 36 Turnham Ave, Rosanna

Images: (top) Julian Adams & Christian Dell'Olio (co-director), and (lower) The entire cast of Treasure Island and directors Ryan Purdey and Christian Dell'Olio. Photographer:  Erich Fordham.

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