Land Ofire (Play) Book

THE STORY: In 1831, Captain James Fitzroy of the HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin to South America, became obsessed with what he saw as a philanthropic mission. He took aboard three young Indians, from a primitive tribe in Tierra del Fuego, and transported them to England to be Christianized. At first, every charitable organization refused to help Fitzroy with what they considered a group of cannibals. Then King William IV became intrigued and had them presented at court. Suddenly everyone wanted to meet Fitzroy's Fuegians. But after barely more than a year, just when the Indians were starting to fancy themselves English ladies and gentlemen, they were abruptly returned to their native land, with trunks full of English finery - to disastrous consequences. Told from the point of view of the Indians, LAND O'FIRE is an insightful and often humorous examination of life interfered with and forever changed by association with a superior culture.