Sheila's Island

Sheila's Island

Sheila's Island

Tim Firth

Gareth Brighton

11 - 18 May 2024


It appears Fay is in some state of undress... She's sitting in a tree; She's got an eighteen inch knife and she's singing the first line from Oklahoma!

Synopsis

The play is a rewrite of Tim Firth’s hit Neville’s Island. Firth is quoted as saying: ‘the weaponry may be different, but the reasons for combat are fundamental human frailties, insecurities and defensive mechanisms, common to us regardless of sex… the ways that the adult humans react are, I think, as alive now as they were then, and as common to Sheila and her team as they are to Neville and his’.