Anthony Lau’s “searing and starkly stripped-back” new staging of “Lord of the Flies” brings William Golding’s modern classic to “thrilling life”, said Gareth Carr on WhatsOnStage .

The tale about a group of boys stranded on a desert island after a plane crash has been a staple of the school curriculum for decades. But it’s a story that remains “timely, disturbing and brilliantly insightful”.

It’s hard to remember a time when the Chichester Festival Theatre stage has been as “abrasively treated as it is in Georgia Lowe’s brutally sparse but incredibly effective designs”. Illuminated by the “harsh fluorescence" of Matt Daw’s lighting, the “unforgiving wasteland” is a fitting backdrop as Golding’s characters “disintegrate into animalistic savages”.

Lau’s “spare and powerful” revival of N

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