Treasure Island at MK Theatre - A Review by Philip Shell

Robert Louis Stevenson’s swashbuckling book Treasure Island came to life at the Milton Keynes Theatre on Tuesday night, in the Birmingham Stage Companies production of the classic novel.

This was a cleverly stage performance with a raked stage set from start to finish ,with subtle changes to transform the set from a quay to onboard a ship, to a wild forested area. The changes being so quick that the changes appeared within the blink of a patched eye.

Jason Taylor’s lighting design created ambience and depth to the scenes and was well complimented by the haunting musical arrangement of Matt Scott, with dramatic and very realistic sound effects.

This play has everything; sea shanties sung as well (in fact if not better) than any musical ensemble; swashbuckling fights which were fairly believable and believable acting and characterisations.

The only minor criticism was the lack of clarity in diction and the occasional problem of directing speech to the back of the stage. That being said it was an enjoyable production and certainly one for all the family.

Philip Shell
 

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