Flashbang
noun: flashbang
a grenade that produces a bright flash and a loud noise so as to stun or disorient people without causing serious injury; a stun grenade.
Ryan and his gang were going to be mates forever.
Living their lives in the same cycle as everyone else in a little town 20 miles from anywhere important.
Living for the next night out. Living for the weekend.
Getting into and out of trouble. Work. Pub. Sleep. Repeat.
Ryan and his gang have seen it all, done it all, lived it all. The nights they wished they could remember and the mornings after they’d rather forget.
Ryan and his gang were going to be mates forever.
But then came the night when everything changed.
Proforça Theatre Company returns with a brand new run of “Flashbang” - an exuberant, explosive and gut-punching rollercoaster ride through the ties that bind five best mates together and what happens to those friends when that world is blown apart.
James Lewis is a critically-acclaimed writer based in London. Previous credits include If I Go (2016), Feel (2018/19, UK Tour), Reading Gaol (2017/18), At Last (2019), the criticallyacclaimed Lately (2021, UK Tour), Volcano (2022) and Flashbang (2022). James also contributed the pieces Charlie (2018), Georgie (2019), Ryan (2020) and Euan (2023) to Proforça’s Feel More anthology companion to Feel.
James’s work has been performed at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, King’s Head Theatre, The Space, Theatre N16, Albany Theatre Coventry, Upstairs at the Western, Town & Gown Cambridge, Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre, Hertford Theatre, Laurels, the Alma Theatre & the Old Joint Stock Theatre.
- ISBN-13
- 9781915533227
- Publisher
- Playdead Press
- Imprint
- Playdead Press
- Publication date
- 20 February 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 104
- Dimensions
- 197 x 132 mm
- Language
- English