Flies
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 1M, 7F
- ISBN: 9780573013416
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
Award-winning writer Charlie Josephine (I, Joan, The Globe) radically responds to William Golding’s classic Lord of the Flies in their new piece Flies – A powerful and contemporary allegory on consent and the fetishisation of the female body.
This new show explodes with tales of girlhood, and the messy joy and sticky shame that come with it. Written from young women’s real experiences expect raw honesty, humour, and sweaty dance.
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REVIEWS:
"A cri de coeur."
The Guardian
"Flies is raw, bold, and radical and tells it like it is."
LondonTheatre1
"There are evocative moments of depth, of pain and fury within the piece, but they are nicely balanced by humour, affection and some raucous dance sequences."
The Reviews Hub
Characters
- Casting: 1M, 7F
- Casting Notes: A group of genuinely diverse young women aged about fourteen. It's useful if the actors are a bit older, so they feel confident talking about puberty in hindsight. It'd be great if they can realistically play fourteen-year-olds though please. They'll need to be able to move, though not be trained dancers. They'll need to be able to confidently eyeball the audience. This piece is an invitation for them to feel empowered onstage, an experiment in a new free existence, a game against the male gaze.
GIRL 2
GIRL 3
GIRL 4
GIRL 5
GIRL 6
GIRL 7
JACK
PIGGY
RALPH
LITTLUN
MAN
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A disobedient cultural response to a very well-known story: the male gaze. |
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