flashbang (2024)
lion & unicorn theatre | LOUGHBOROUGH GRAMMAR | OLD JOINT STOCK, BIRMINGHAM
WRITTEN BY JAMES LEWIS
directed by david brady
“a town twenty miles from anywhere important.”
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.
“Flashbang” is a critically-acclaimed, award nominated rollercoaster ride through the ties that bind five best mates together and what happens to those friends when that world is blown apart.
Transferring to Greenwich from the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, Flashbang is written by James Lewis & Directed by David Brady and brought to you by the critically-acclaimed team at Proforca Theatre Company in association with Greenwich Theatre.
CAST & CREATIVES
RYAN: NICK HARDIE
RYAN / JASON: BEN BOOTH BENNETT
RYAN / ANDY: MATT WAKE / BEN BORTHWICK
RYAN / DEANO: FRED WARDALE
FEATURING DAN NASH as MIKEY and LAUREN FERDINAND as SHANICE
WRITER: JAMES LEWIS
DIRECTOR: DAVID BRADY
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: DAVID BRADY
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR: LUCY GLASSBROOK
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: GREG JORDAN
ACCOUNTANCY SERVICES: THEATACCOUNTS
LEGAL SERVICES: ALLETSONS
PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY: ROSS KERNAHAN
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
OFF WEST END NOMINATION “SOUND DESIGN” - OFFWESTEND.COM - 2024
OFF WEST END NOMINATION “PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE” - OFFWESTEND.COM - 2024
WITH THANKS TO:
HANNAH DANIELS, AVI & THE TEAM AT THE LION & UNICORN PUB, YOUNGS PUBS, DODIE FINAMORE, THE CAST OF FLASHBANG [2022], THE CAST OF THE SHATTERBOX [2023], JOHN SLADE, SAM BAKER-JONES, LIAM KING, MAX HASTINGS, SAMUEL GOSRANI, THE L&U THEATRE OPS TEAM, GEORGIE BAILEY, LUCY BETTS & HAL DARLING, ERIN READ, HARRIET LAMBERT, KIM SCOPES, MELISSA PHILLIPS, HEATHER JEFFREY & LONDON PUB THEATRES, TERRI PADDOCK, ROB WARREN, EMMA BURNELL, EMILY KEEBLE, MATT WAKE, GEORGE EVANS, BLAKE HEAVEN, DAVID ANGLAND, LUKE DAYHILL, MATT PENSON & WILL SHACKLETON.
PRAISE FOR FLASHBANG