Award-winning physical comedy company Le Navet Bete to present comedy fun with Escape to Treasure Island at Salisbury Playhouse
THE award-winning physical comedy company Le Navet Bete will present Treasure Island as never seen before at Salisbury Playhouse.
As one of the UK’s leading touring physical comedy theatre companies, the award-winning team of comics will perform the show with a cast of four in their own inimitable style.
Teaming up with one of UK theatre’s best comedy writers and directors, Olivier Award nominee John Nicholson, the show will be laced with a whole host of contemporary comedic twists.
Featuring a very unusual motley crew of pirates, the story will also introduce a parrot called Alexa straight from the Amazon, a well-known white bearded fish finger tycoon and an unforgettable mermaid.
Le Navet Bete have been entertaining audiences globally since their formation in 2007. The company’s members first met while studying theatre and performance at the University of Plymouth in 2003. Since then the team have garnered huge critical acclaim including for their recent co-produced show Cinderella at with the Exeter Northcott Theatre.
Le Navet Bete co-founder Nick Bunt said: “Over the past 16 years, along with a huge amount of hard work and a lot of fun, we have successfully turned that passion into a company with a growing and ever loyal fan-base, an extensive back catalogue of work and four internationally published scripts.
“Robert Louis Stevenson’s original tale had always been one in the back of our minds; the characters and narrative give us so much to work with, to create an immensely fun, true-to-the-story, larger-than-life world to play with and put our own hilariously chaotic spin on.”
Treasure Island is suitable for ages eight and over. Tickets are from £15. For more information and bookings visit www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk or contact the box office on 01722 320333.
