Out Of Joint Theatre Company, Shakespeare's Globe On Tour

'It is as if we find ourselves at the beginning of time. 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.’

1789. The year of the French Revolution and the infamous mutiny on The Bounty. Rebellion and new ideas of democracy are in the air.

After overthrowing Captain Bligh, Fletcher Christian drops anchor at the remote island of Pitcairn in the southern Pacific. He plans to establish a society of equals with his fellow sailors and their Tahitian followers. But the settlers are loathe to relinquish their privileges and vices, and the Tahitians dream of home.

With salty humour and growing horror, Richard Bean charts the colony's descent from a new Eden to brutal dystopia.