Treasure Island Review

’Treasure Island!’ – Year 7 July 2005

Original score, lyrics and libretto by Stephen Kingsbury.

A wonderful performance of Treasure Island by Year 7 .Under Mr Clay's direction the cast delivered outstanding performances. Mark Fuller was excellent as Jim Hawkins and Kieran Martin was a menacing Long John Silver. The bumbling double act of Harry Dunlop's Squire and Pearce's Doctor, were a source of great humour, as was the hapless Black Dog (Nick White) and Big Jesse (George Apostolides). Other favourites include the clearly insane Priyen Jani as Blind Pew and Ben Newman Saunders as suave ladies' man Ben Gun. The delectable Island Girls where played by some very charming year 7 boys and the chorus stayed on stage throughout to give strong backing to the admirable singing of the main characters. The excellent school orchestra directed by Ms Bright provided swarthy oomph to back each jaunty number . The set was magnificent, designed and constructed by DT and Art Department with all hands on deck from many boys, including some "old" 6th formers who came back to help back stage . The clever lighting and sound was run by the boys under the excellent direction of Mr. Priestman..