Andrew Motion, National Theatre Platform

To compliment the swashbuckling excitement of the National Theatre's family winter show, Treasure Island, writer Andrew Motion will focus discuss the author of this classic pirate tale.
Expect an enlightening insight, as Motion casts both a creative and critical gaze over Stevenson's legendary literary career.
The intriguingly open ending of Treasure Island tickled Motion's creative impulses and inspired him to bring the pirate world back to life and create a trilogy with first Silver and then The New World. Stevenson himself was no stranger to sequels (he wrote one to Kidnapped) but his relatively early death prevented us from knowing whether Jim Hawkins ever voyages again...
Motion's sequels are both an homage and a development from the original. Proving equally popular with critics and readers young and old, the books channel the energy of  Stevenson's original, but also carve their own word with the inherited characters.