Treasure Island

Billon’s adaptation, true to the sensibility of the original, reveals a solid narrative momentum and a gift for peppering proceedings with the kind of big set-piece moments that children will adore.

Capital Critics’ Circle
Jamie Portman

★★★/4

There are moments of surprise and delight in this [production.] Billon frames the play through the dreams of James (Barnet), whose father (Chioran) reads Treasure Island to him at night (as Cushman’s own father did to him as a child), which leads to a satisfying and moving conclusion. 

Toronto Star
Carly Maga

[It] does so in such engaging fashion without ever losing sight of one of Stevenson’s central themes and lifelong agonizing personal passions – the integral link between fathers and sons. Nicolas Billon’s very fresh adaptation has all this and more – the search for buried treasure, plundering pirates and that familial bond, cleverly introduced in modern times, then enhanced through tales of fantasy.

London Free Press
Geoff Dale