FLIES - Rehearsed Reading 30 Oct 2025
Shaun Dunne, in collaboration with Olga Buckina, Hugo Russell Connolly, Thomas Kelly, Evie Kenny, Anna Godson O'Doherty, Raymond Murphy, Naomi Ingilosi Moonveld-Nkosi & LilyRose Wogan-Martin.
In a Dublin estate, not too far from here, a group of teenagers attempt to write a book report on William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies.
But what’s the point in having “a personal response” of your own when Chat GPT can have one for you?
Set in a park after dark, a free class, a free house and a desert island. Flies is a rehearsed reading riffing on the themes found in Golding’s original text.
Made in collaboration with former members of The Ark’s Children’s Council, this piece picks up where Golding left off. What happens when groupthink turns to herd mentality?
Are people innately bad? Or are our teenage years just a really bad phase?
One thing is clear. For Lord of the Flies to go anywhere, there had to be a pig and there had to be a spear.
So… who’s going to be the pig?
The Making of Flies...
Flies was developed through a collaborative process with alumni of The Ark’s Children’s Council. Now as teenagers, these alumni reunited to work with playwright & The Ark Engagement and Participation Artist Shaun Dunne, to explore the work of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.