PITCAIRN is a name forever linked with one of the most infamous ever mutinies at sea.

Now a new play by award winning writer Richard Bean takes a fresh look at what happened to those mutineers when they settled on the Pitcairn Group of Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean in the late 1700s.

Mr Bean, whose recent version of Moliere’s, The Hypochondriac, raised quite a few eyebrows as well as plenty of laughs, has made Pitcairn a gripping island story set immediately after the mutiny on The Bounty.

Worcestershire theatregoers will be able to judge for themselves his latest offering when it opens for a five-day run at Malvern’s Festival Theatre from Tuesday, November 18 to Saturday, November 22.

With salty humour and growing horror it charts how one man's dream of building a modern society of equals is blown dramatically off-course.

Pitcairn opens in 1789, when revolution is in the air. In France, a monarchy falls and in the South Pacific, Fletcher Christian overthrows his captain in the famous mutiny on The Bounty.

With his fellow mutineers, and their Tahitian lovers and followers, Christian drops anchor at the fertile and remote islands of Pitcairn.

However, his dreams of a new Eden are destroyed by the greed and suspicions of his fellow sailors, and by the Tahitians’ rigid adherence to their hierarchy and traditions.

Award-winning playwright Richard Bean, best known for the West End and Broadway hit One Man Two Guvnors, renews his collaboration with acclaimed director Max Stafford-Clark for Pitcairn. Mr Bean has forged a reputation as one of Britain’s leading playwrights whose work is characterised by robust humour and Pitcairn is the second of three world premieres written by him to open during 2014. He has won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play two times, and Critics Circle awards in both London and New York.