Oliver Birch

With his kids running riot on a Sunday morning a tired father tries to find space to contemplate the world by posing them a puzzle. The solution they find outreaches his expectation.

Bear's hat is gone. He loves his hat. He wants it back. He asks all the animals in the forest, but no one has seen it. WAIT. He has seen it somewhere.

It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins. Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery.

Three tired figures stagger into the middle of a ploughed field. Suddenly, the land owner and his thugs enter and demand to know what right these strangers have to sit on his land.