Aaaarrgggh! Treasure Island Comes to Castle Hill

Ahoy, me hearties and shiver me timbers!

Treasure Island has cut hawser and sailed into the Pavilion Theatre. This production based on the beloved Robert Louis Stevenson classic tale is filled with everyone’s favorite characters:  Devious ‘Black Dog’, Creepy ‘Blind Pew’, cantankerous drunken old seadog Billy Bones, lovable boob Squire Trelawney and of course, one of literature’s greatest hero villains, Long John Silver. All seen through the eyes of and narrated by fourteen year old Jim Hawkins. Treasure Island is a swashbuckling, big cast event with the action of sword fights, gun battles, epic chase scenes, villainous intrigues and the heart-warming relationship between Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins, the boy he has sworn to protect.

Director Jeremy Johnson has created this dramatic tale of adventure, mutiny, betrayal, and buried treasure. Get transported from Bristol Bay England in 1775 to join the pirates and crew on board ‘The Hispaniola’ as they voyage to the West Indies in search of Captain Flint’s buried treasure.

The story centres around the bright-eyed Jim Hawkins whose life changes forever when Billy Bones hands him a treasure map one night at ‘The Admiral Benbow Inn’, run by Jim’s mother, Mrs Hawkins.  This map leads to Captain Flint’s hoard of gold and jewels. But to search for it and dig it up will turn an innocent boy into a man as he discovers a greedy world of cutthroat pirates and undergoes a crash course in intrigue, trickery and treachery.

Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig and directed by Jeremy Johnson, classic adventure yarn Treasure Island is set to kick start the 2016 Season for Castle Hill Players.

Ye would have to have the ‘brains of a dyin’ oyster’ to want to miss it!

Tickets can be booked online at www.paviliontheatre.org.au. Treasure Island opens on Friday 5 February 2016 and runs until Saturday 27 February 2016. Tickets price: $20/$27.

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