This is the stage adaptation of Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd”. **
Billy Budd is a stage adaptation of Hermann Melville’s classic saga of events aboard a British man-of-war during the Napoleonic wars.
When the young sailor foundling, Billy Budd, is forced to leave the ship he calls home, he is impressed into duty on an English warship and accused of mutinous actions by an antagonistic sergeant-of-arms. His innocence and charisma make him instantly popular with all his new crewmates – except one… In an angry outburst, Billy accidentally kills his accuser, and his fate is in the hands of the ship’s tribunal.
The book was begun in November 1888 and left unfinished at Melville’s death in 1891.
** This production is not suitable for Lower School students.**