Treasure Island review " horrors on the high seas
Birmingham RepLong John Silver swaggers perilously close to child abuse while his parrot pecks out dissenters' eyes in this darkened voyage through Stevenson's taleRobert Louis Stevenson conceived Treasure Island to entertain his stepson on a wet Scottish holiday. He noted that "it was to be a story for boys; no need of psychology or fine writing. Women were excluded." Bryony Lavery's adaptation, originally commissio…