Oliver Birch

With his kids running riot on a Sunday morning a tired father tries to find space to contemplate the world by posing them a puzzle. The solution they find outreaches his expectation.

It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins. Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery.

Three tired figures stagger into the middle of a ploughed field. Suddenly, the land owner and his thugs enter and demand to know what right these strangers have to sit on his land.