I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

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Childhood friends from the same Birmingham estate, Patrick (Anthony Boyle), Shiv (Lola Petticrew), Rian (Joe Cole), Oli (Jay Lycurgo) and Conor (Daryl McCormack) grew up together.  They played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of everything they’d do with their lives. But now, they’re 30 – and things haven’t worked out quite how they planned.

Adapted by Edna Walsh from Keiran Goddard’s 2014 novel, it brings home the sober reality of how individual lives may be limited by material conditions and stricken by loss and addiction, but also how humour, loyalty and friendship continue to bestow meaning – even (or especially) in the toughest of circumstances.