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Lord of the Flies; Ex Nihilo/The Human Edge review by Luke Jennings

Theatre Royal, Plymouth; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, London Matthew Bourne brings little savages indoors as Mayuri Boonham invokes Hindu deitiesLord of the Flies was originally set on a desert island, but Matthew Bourne sets his version of William Golding's dystopian novel in an abandoned theatre, giving the work's title new resonance (in this production, Piggy, affectingly danced by Sam Plant, is killed by a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on May 3, 2014

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