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"Lord of the Flies" – The Lower Ossington Theatre

C$49 for "Lord of the Flies" Live in Toronto for Two ($98 Value)

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In a Nutshell

A plane crash leaves a group of English boys stranded on a tropical island, where they quickly descend into violence and chaos

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Without the applause of an audience, actors have no way of knowing how well they've died. Stand and ovate with this GrouponLive deal to see Lord of the Flies at the Lower Ossington Theatre. For $49, you get two general-admission tickets to any performance through Sunday, December 9 (a $98 value). Doors open one hour before the performance.

An unflinching look at the precarious balance between society and chaos, William Golding’s 1954 novel Lord of the Flies remains a harrowing meditation on the nature of being human. While evacuating from a nuclear war, a group of schoolboys survive a plane crash and wash ashore on an island in the Pacific. The boys quickly build a civilization of their own, in which two leaders soon vie for control of the conch shell: Ralph, who believes in law and compassion, and Jack, who champions the power of fear. Initially the boys heed Ralph’s urging to keep a signal fire burning and to operate by popular vote, but rumours of a beast prowling the woods fuel a growing faction of Jack’s partisans. What began as an almost playful vacation from the tyranny of adults takes on nightmarish dimensions as the children’s fears overpower their reason.

A mainstay of English literature classes and the inspiration for shows such as Lost and Survivor, Lord of the Flies abounds with visceral and iconic imagery. The sound of a blown conch shell. Piggy's glasses lighting the island's first weak fire. The first hunt. The frenzied dance that ends in a murder. And, of course, the Lord of the Flies itself—an impaled sow's head that watches over the play's gruesome proceedings with a decomposing grin. The Lower Ossington Theatre touches on all the book's allegorical touchstones, but focuses its energies on making the book's harrowing plot as immediate and tactile as the boys' crude face paint.

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When Brittany Goldfield Rodrigues of Broadway World paid a visit to Lower Ossington Theatre's production of RENT, she was struck by many things—the dynamite performances and powerhouse vocals, the costumes, the deceptively simple staging—but the space itself might have taken the cake. An intimate venue can make an experience immersive, and Lower Ossington Theatre's three performance spaces possess that quality in spades. Goldfield Rodrigues noted how instead of a stage, the theatre kept audiences and performers on the same plane—the show in an open space at the front with individual chairs facing it—helping viewers feel as though they were in the same world as the characters and dispelling the worry that the performers might be invading giants.

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"Lord of the Flies"

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    The Lower Ossington Theatre

    100A Ossington Ave.
    Toronto, Ontario M6J 2Z4
    (416) 915-6747
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  • Contact The Lower Ossington Theatre at (416) 915-6747 for questions or hours.