Four up-and-coming actors will star in the world premiere of Proforca Theatre’s latest explosive new play Flashbang, which has a strictly limited run at the start of the new autumn season at London’s Lion & Unicorn Theatre. Meet the cast below – and then get booking!
Flashbang, directed by Proforca and Lion & Unicorn Theatre artistic director David Brady, will run for ten performances only from 7 to 16 September 2022, with a press night – including post-show Q&A chaired by MyTheatreMates founder Terri Paddock – on Thursday 8 September.
noun: flashbang
1. 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 that mattered.
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 Flashbang – an exuberant, explosive and gut-punching rollercoaster ride through the ties that bind best mates together, a world that revolves around a town where nothing ever happens, and what happens to those friends when that world gets blown apart.
Sam Kacher, Emmanuel Olusanya, Henry Brackenridge and Fred Wardale each play Ryan as well as different friends. Brackenridge and Wardale are both Proforca Theatre returnees, with Brackenridge having appeared in AAAA and Wardale in Lately at the Lion & Unicorn.
An exuberant, explosive and gut-punching rollercoaster ride through the ties that bind five (?) best mates together #Flashbang is the story of what happens to those friends when that world is blown apart.
Find out more about our brand new cast right here: pic.twitter.com/DC19GhgLBJ
— Proforça Theatre Company (@ProforcaTheatre) July 12, 2022
Flashbang is written by James Lewis and directed by David Brady and mounted by the critically-acclaimed team behind At Last (2019), Feel (2018/19) and the multiple Offie-nominated Lately (2021).
Content advisory: Contains very strong language, loud noises, adult themes, drugs references and references to mental health and bereavement.
