Lord of the Flies

The Lord of the flies is one of the most recognized english novels from the 20th century. It is written by William Golding and explores the hostility and darkness in this world through the survivors of a plain crash, 10 year old kids , who try to survive in a desserted island and slowly become savages leaving civilization aside.
The novel has become a classic in modern literature and won a novel prize, it has been considered controversial beacuse of the environment and message it delivers to the readers, because of the characters, little kids, Golding implies evil corrupts children and there may be no honest and civilized people in the future.
There have been many atempts to adapt Golding´s succesful novel into different mediums however, non of the movies have reached the level of sophistication in The lord of the Flies, however there have been theatre plays which have done an excellent job portraying the novel on stage.
In this case The Lord of the Flies has been presented in the "Mario Vargas Llosa" theatre in Lima Peru directed by Paco Solis Fuster. Gladly it has been adaptated greatly retaining most of the aspects in the original novel doing some minor changes to the original source.

The presentation of the play was well done, using only a few props and with a simplistic but yet effective scenery. The lightning was used in order to show the feelings in each scene and the contrast between the start and end of the play. The lightning changed from white, used when the kids just arrived to the island, into a dark red, almost black, once most of the boys are savages and hunt pigs.
Because all the actors where young adults,portraying little kids was not an easy task, however they were able to act correctly, the entonation in the lines and the voices were precise and the characterization thorugh the actions was effective and the intentions were clear.

In conlcusion The lord of the flies, was well adapted into an amazing play conserving teh original plot while adding several scenes which only worked in a theatre play such as the introductory monologue of the pilot before dying. The play has been well received and it will apparently start again next season so more people will discover the amazing novel by Willaim Golding , and those who laready know it, will now experience a magnificient adaptation done by a talented group of artists.