What if right before we die our life doesn’t flash by our eyes? What if, instead, a terrifying story does. Can You Hear the Pigeons, a bold retelling of Lord of The Flies, is a new play written and directed by Emmy Award winning writer William Electric Black aka Ian Ellis James. The play is a story imagined by Ralph, from the original story, while Jack Merridew and his hunters set their habitat on fire to trap and kill him. Jack has already killed the smart, asthmatic boy called Piggy and the strange loner, Simon. Ralph, knowing that his fate is sealed, has nowhere else to go except inside his mind where Lord of The Flies conjures up a new, engrossing tale, Can You Hear the Pigeons.
In this daring, immersive production where the audience sits on stage, Ralph becomes Ralphie, as he imagines that he exists on another island where an array of other teenagers—Lorde, Jackson, Faye, Frances, Taylor, Gray Ford and Frankie now find themselves alone in the 13th Circle. War has erupted, and many young boys and girls have been sent away by their parents to find safety in the circles. Can You Hear the Pigeons is the all-consuming chaos within Ralph’s mind that tragically parallels his same fate.
