At Last
The old world has fallen and something brave and new has taken its place.
Out of the fire and rubble and the ashes something new is born. A chance to learn about the past and to discover who we were to save the future. A chance to find hope anew, or to tear open wounds which will never close again.
This is the story of ten years of hate. Ten years of oppression and anger when we gave ourselves up to the dark.
A story of the mother who fought for her broken sons, and the father that stood in judgement. The daughter willing to pay the ultimate price for freedom, the man who stood by and watched and the woman that listened.
This is the story of when the world went mad.
It is time to tell the truth.
At Last...
Proforca Theatre Company presents "At Last" - a brand new piece of writing which returns to the Lion & Unicorn Theatre after 5 years away and is more potent and relevant than ever. "At Last" is a dark, brutal, almost verbatim-style selection of interconnected monologues which tell the "what if" story of the aftermath of 10 years of a totalitarian right-wing regime in the UK.
It is a searing search for redemption and reconciliation in the rubble of a broken society, whilst questioning who we are when everything that makes us human is stripped away with a story that is more pertinent, incendiary and hard hitting than it's ever been.
James Lewis is a critically-acclaimed & award nominated writer based in London. Previous credits include If I Go (2016); Feel (2018/19, UK Tour); Reading Gaol (2017/18); At Last (2019); AAAAA [FiveA] (2021); Lately (2021, UK Tour); Volcano (2022); Flashbang (2022) and The Shatter Box (2023).
James also contributed the pieces Charlie (2018), Georgie (2019), Ryan (2020) and Euan (2023) to Proforça’s Feel More anthology companion to Feel. and the short piece By Your Side which is currently in development as a short film.
At Last; AAAAA; Lately & The Shatter Box were all nominated for Standing Ovation Awards by London Pub Theatres Magazine and Lately was nominated for an Offie in 2021 for Best New Play. Both Lately & Flashbang are published by Playdead Press.
Flashbang transfers to Greenwich Theatre in January 2026.
,Alexander Knott is an Off West End Award winning theatre maker who works as a writer, director and creative producer. He has written and directed productions at the Bristol Old Vic, The Barn Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, 53Two Manchester, the Underbelly Edinburgh, the Old Red Lion Theatre (where he was Artistic Director) and numerous venues across London. He has taught Acting and Writing at Italia Conti, Central Film School and LAMDA, and was most recently Producer of The Bread and Roses Theatre and the founding Producer of the Lambeth Fringe Festival.
As a writer, his plays include: Bath (Bag of Beard, The Bread & Roses Theatre); Loop (BoxLess, Theatre Royal Stratford East, national tour & Edinburgh Fringe); Blue Blue (WoLab, King’s Head Theatre); Brenda from UKIP (Proforca, The Space / The Lion & Unicorn Theatre); Renaissance Men (Joint Writer / Dramaturg, Old Red Lion Theatre / Square Chapel Arts Centre & northern tour); Hedgehog (BoxLess, The Lion & Unicorn Theatre); At Last (Joint Writer, Proforca, The Lion & Unicorn Theatre and tour); Nothing Between Friends (Joint Writer, West Avenue, Waterloo East Theatre); Yesterday’s Dreams (Katzpace); December – A New Play for Christmas (Old Red Lion Theatre); Cratchit (Park Theatre); Ballooniana! (New Wimbledon Theatre); The Messiah Complex (VAULT Festival) which was nominated for an Origins Award for Outstanding New Theatre; The Tales of the Giants (Wilton’s Music Hall Studio) and The Highgate Vampire (VAULT). His writing is represented internationally by Nordiska Collective.
- ISBN-13
- 9781915533395
- Publisher
- Playdead Press
- Imprint
- Playdead Press
- Publication date
- 2 September 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 114
- Dimensions
- 197 x 132 mm
- Language
- English