Pitcairn, The Globe

An imagined sequel to the infamous mutiny onboard the HMS Bounty in 1789, Richard Bean’s mutineers set up a colony on the tropical island of Pitcairn, turning Paradise into yet another British colony.
The Story...
After mutinying against their cruel Captain Bligh and setting him and his supporters adrift, the mutineer seamen of The Bounty return to the remote island of Pitcairn where they have been living with Tahitians for the last five months. Mutiny leader Fletcher Christian is already married to one of the native women and sexual tension is high amongst the sailors who have been away from their homeland for more than two years. This is British colonisation on a small scale. Fletcher attempts to found a new utopian society alongside the islanders, with only eight of the remaining crew. “It is as if we find ourselves at the beginning of time,” he declares, “Man and Woman in a natural state. Let Tahiti be our model where men live without a sense of vice, without prejudices, without disputes. And let the kelson of our society be love." But despite the best intentions, things are leading to a violent clash of cultures...
The Creatives...
Richard Bean has been in the spotlight this sumer with the West End transfer of Great Britain, a very topical secret satire about the phone-hacking scandal, the success of his early play Toast, revived at Park Theatre and the buzz surrounding his adaptation of Made in Dagenham. Historical drama is quite the departure for the playwright who is probably best known for his farce One Man Two Guvnors, now running in the West End. But in fact, Bean's play writing repertoire spans the life and times of a Hull trawler man in Under the Whaleback and several adaptations of older classics such as Moliere’s Hypochondriac, Dion Boucicault’s London Assurance and Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. 
This also marks an exciting return by Out of Joint Theatre Company director, Max Stafford-Clark. As is often his way, this is a collaboration with the Chichester Festival Theatre as well as The Globe, drawing together talent from all over the country. Stafford-Clark gained notoriety in the 80s after directing several of Caryl Churchill’s plays such as Cloud Nine and Top Girls and as artistic director of The Royal Court for fourteen years. Last year, he directed a revival of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good — another play about British colonisation, this time on the Australian coastline. 
The cast includes the wonderful and talented Jack Tarlton (BBC's Dr Who and RSC's Troilus and Cressida) as William Brown. And starring as Fletcher Christian is young actor Tom Morley. one Pitcairn native ‘Mata’ will be played by young up-and-comer Cassie Layton, who spent this Spring playing Marianne in the Watermill Theatre’s Sense and Sensibility and can be seen starring in Jarhead 2: Field of Fire in cinemas this year. 
Originally written for the Royal Shakespeare Company, we think this show will be far more exciting for being in the hands of Max Stafford-Clarke, who gave Our Country’s Good its timeless appeal. Richard Bean hopes the story will resemble “a grown up Lord of the Flies.” When asked about focusing on historical events, he added lyrically: “Time adds depth. Time reveals patterns, repetition, tropes of humanity.”