PILOT Theatre's award-winning adaptation of Lord of the Flies opens at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth today.

Following a plane crash on an uninhabited island, the story follows the actions of adolescent schoolboys as they battle against the elements for survival and against each other for supremacy.

This production allows the dark nature of the story to be peeled back to reveal the inevitable disintegration of a precarious civilisation under the harsh glare of the elements. Tickets from £7. Box office: 023 9264 9000.