"Castaway stories, from Cast Away to The Martian, often make for feelgood classics. They are tales about an ingenious individual overcoming huge odds, a triumphant metaphor for the human spirit. Here's a funny thing: castaway stories featuring large groups of people lead to the exact opposite. Forced to self-organise, they end up eating each other. The exception is Lost; I don't know what that was about. Polar bears? Needless to say, I like them all."
"Promisingly, it's adapted by Jack Thorne. Every time a new Jack Thorne drama appears, which is no more than a couple of times a month, my writer friends wonder at his prodigious talent. Why does this man write as if he's running out of time? As if he's found himself in possession of the last pen on Earth? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, This Is England, Toxic Town, His Dark Materials, The Swimmers, The Virtues and The Motive and the Cue. You saw Adolescence."
Castaway stories about lone survivors, such as Cast Away and The Martian, celebrate individual ingenuity and the human spirit. Castaway stories featuring large groups often show self-organisation collapsing into violence and cannibalism. William Golding's Lord of the Flies dramatizes this through British schoolboys crash-landing on a desert island. Lord of the Flies has been taught in UK schools for over sixty years. The new BBC four-part adaptation is written by Jack Thorne and directed by Marc Munden. Jack Thorne's work is described as prolific and urgent, returning here to themes of developing masculinity with a 1950s perspective while feeling contemporarily resonant.
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