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Pitcairn

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  6w, 9m

Richard Bean

In the southern Pacific Ocean on the remote island of Pitcairn, the infamous mutineers of The Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian (or should it be Titreano?) begin to establish a new society alongside their Tahitian followers. Tensions quickly swell as the British settlers refuse to relinquish the vices of their past.

Pitcairn

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    6w, 9m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Docudrama/History

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Summary

Social, racial and sexual schisms render the once paradisiac island into a hotbed of discord and bloody violence. Pitcairn vividly explores the conflict between personal freedoms and public responsibilities. Pitcairn is Richard Bean's brutal telling of the colonisation of the remote island of Pitcairn by Fletcher Christian and the Bounty mutineers. The play charts - with salty humour and growing horror - the spiralling descent of the colony from a new Eden of freedom and equality to a brutal dystopia.

  • Time Period 18th Century
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)

Media

"Riproaring" - The Telegraph

"Bean dares to tackle big themes with thought-provoking fizz." - The Guardian

"In the haunting suggestiveness and savagely comic iconoclasm department, Pitcairn... is going to be in a class of its own." - The Independent

"Bean spins a rip-roaring yarn thick with spectacle and raw energy" - StageTalk Magazine

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Richard Bean

Richard Bean
Richard Bean was born in Hull in 1956. After school, he worked in a bread plant before leaving to study Social Psychology at Loughborough University. Richard has worked as a psychologist and a stand-up comedian. His work for the stage includes: Young Marx (which has just ...
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