Hurst Players bring Treasure Island in pantomime

By Anne Hopper

It’s almost panto time! Not quite yet, but at the end of December and into January 2023, the Hurst Players will present a very homegrown version of the classic tale Treasure Island. Loosely based on the famous novel by Robert Louis Stevenson (actually hanging by a thread!) it will be a traditional panto – a rollicking tale of buccaneers and buried treasure, written by Bob Sampson and directed by Richard Coney.

We’ll have Long John Silver and his band of renegades – a traditional Pantomime Dame – yes, really - and a Fairy Mermaid plus our variation on some of the characters from the book: Squire Trelawney, Billy Bones, Blind Pugh – now renamed Blind Poo - this is a panto! And not forgetting our hero ‘Jim Lad’ Hawkins.

Tickets - £11 for adults £8 for children under 12 will shortly be available online from hurstplayers.org.uk – and from December, in person at the Theatre Box Office on Saturday mornings.