Under The Black Flag

[Tall Paul]

Under The Black Flag, a new play by Simon Bent, about the early days of Long John Silver, opens at Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London on the 18th of July this year.

Acording to the previews, (See links below,) this is a play about the adventures of Long John Silver before he lost his leg.

It is set during the rule of Cromwell, and as a result of a thread on this subject at the UKPirateBrotherhood Yahoo Group, we worked out that, if John silver was a boy pirate at the time of Cromwells death, he would have been about 114 years olt by the time the events of the book Treasure Island took place.

Here is a link to the Globe Theatre website.

Shakespere's Globe

and here are a couple of online items about the play.

The Society of London Theatre

LTG Online

[William Brand]

"The production features bare flesh and filthy language."

It just had to be repeated here. Arrr.