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Pitcairn

  • Richard Bean
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Docudrama/Historic, 18th Century
  • 9M, 6F
  • ISBN: 9781783191079

Pitcairn is Richard Bean's brutal telling of the colonisation of the remote island of Pitcairn by Fletcher Christian and the Bounty mutineers.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Docudrama/Historic
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 18th Century
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. 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 an 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.

Premiere Production: Pitcairn was first produced at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on 22nd September, 2014.

Characters

  • Casting: 9M, 6F

  • MUTINEERS
    FLETCHER CHRISTIAN - 24 - Officer/master's mate. Cumbria
    NED YOUNG - 24 - Officer/midshipman. Caribean/St. Kitts
    MATHEW QUINTAL - 26 - AB. West Country
    WILLIAM MCKOY - 26 - AB/blacksmith. Scottish
    WILLIAM BROWN - 30 - gardener. Educated/scrophula scar
    JOHN ADAMS (aka Alexander Smith) - 23 - AB. Cockney.

    POLYNESIAN WOMEN (their 'husbands' in brackets)
    WALUA (Mathew Quintal) - 23 - Manuhane, warm personality, motherly
    TE'O (William McKoy) - 23 - Manuhane, overweight, (already has a baby girl)
    MATA - (Ned Young) - 16 - Manuhane, high energy, great looking
    MI MITTI (Fletcher Christian) - 30 - Ra'atira, arrogant, tall, superior, great looking
    TE LAHU (William Brown) - 30 - Arioi, a dancer, an artist
    FASTO (Oha/John Adams) - 25 - Manuhane, traditional thinker, timid

    POLYNESIAN MEN
    MENALEE - 30 - Manuhane/a farmer
    HITI - 15 - Manuhane
    OHA - 45 - Ra'atira/overweight

    MARINES AND OFFICERS (to double)
    CAPTAIN PIPON
    CAPTAIN STAINES
    CALVERT (Marine)
    MAGEE (Marine)
    PRATT (Marine)

    A CHILD

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    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.

    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 spiraling descent of the colony from a new Eden of freedom and equality to a brutal dystopia.

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