A hearrrty, touching ‘Treasure Island’ offered by area theater company

For all the swashbuckling fun, colorful villains, good guys, suspense and even Shakespeare offered by Ken Ludwig’s stage adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” playing through Aug. 8 as part of the Oberlin Summer Theatre Festival, the playwright keeps intact the coming-of-age tale’s heart : Childhood innocence interrupted.
These three words have endeared us to a myriad of fictional youngsters who’ve had to come of age too quickly, missing out on carefree moments we fondly recall from our own youthful days.

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