Stage: Jethro Compton’s White Fang UK Premieres at the Connaught Theatre Worthing

Inspired by the classic novel and other much loved works from American author Jack London, Jethro Compton presents his new play, White Fang. 

The show opened at freeFall Theatre, Florida, this October, in the midst of Hurricane Irma. Despite the enormous destruction which left the theatre entirely unusable, White Fang opened in a custom-built pop-up space and has been running for the last month to sell out houses and rave reviews.

The story is set in 1898, North-Western Canada, deep in the forests of the Yukon Territory. After the massacre of her tribe, a young girl is rescued from the snow by an old huntsman from a nearby settlement who offers shelter and the strength to survive. Torn from centuries of tradition, facing a new and violent land, she struggles to find her path in the world. An outsider to all, she discovers hope in the friendship of an abandoned wolf, White Fang.

With this newfound alliance, the two unite with the land, learning the ways of her ancestors. Lethal with blade and bow, there are few who can match her skill in the wild. But when the time comes and she faces her greatest challenge of all, the threat of assimilation and the extinction of her identity, will these skills be enough to make a difference? Will they be enough to survive? White Fang is an epic story of love, loss, and redemption – red-written in the snow.

White Fang is an epic story of love, loss, and redemption – red-written in the snow

Jethro Compton is a Cornish writer, director and theatre producer. He began his theatre career in 2008 as the Producer and Co-Artistic Director of Belt Up Theatre, company in residence at York Theatre Royal. In 2010 he established Jethro Compton Productions to develop his own work as a writer, director, and producer. In 2017, Jethro directed his first foreign-language production, translated from his own adaptation of Louis Sachar’s Fuzzy Mud in Vienna. In 2018 he returns to Vienna to direct two new productions in German, starting with a translation of his adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess.

In 2010 he was awarded a bursary from Stage One to support his development as a commercial producer. Between 2011 and 2013 he was Associate Producer of Southwark Playhouse, London. In 2016 he became an Associate Artist of Hall for Cornwall.

White Fang
Thursday 7 & Friday 8 December 2017 7.30pm
Connaught Theatre, Union Place, Worthing, BN11 1LG
01903 206 206 www.worthingtheatres.co.uk