I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING

Dialogue with author Keiran Goddard

Five friends. Five lives. Countless hopes. Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor grew up together. They played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of everything they'd do with their lives. Now they’re thirty and those dreams haven’t materialized quite how they imagined. Patrick (Anthony Boyle) and Shiv (Lola Petticrew) are as in love as ever, but their relationship is rocked when an old secret opens up new wounds. Charismatic Oli (Jay Lycurgo), always the life and soul, is partying too hard and is fading by the day. Conor (Daryl McCormack) has a baby on the way and a business plan that could change everything. Only Rian (Joe Cole) has left the estate, moved to London and made a lot of money. He’s lonely and disconnected, missing home and community, his family of close friends. Adapted from Keiran Goddard's novel of the same name by Enda Walsh (Small Things Like These), Clio Barnard (Ali & Ava) deftly depicts a timely tale of social realism with her signature hard edge tinged with hopeful melancholy.