<p>Social racial and sexual schisms render the once paradisiac island into a hotbed of discord and bloody violence.<em> Pitcairn</em> vividly explores the conflict between personal freedoms and public responsibilities<em>. Pitcairn</em> is Richard Bean's brutal telling of the colonisation of the remote island of Pitcairn by Fletcher Christian and the Bounty mutineers. The play charts - with salty humour and growing horror - the spiralling descent of the colony from a new Eden of freedom and equality to a brutal dystopia.</p>