Boom Boom Bang
Druid Debut 2025
Ciaran, Tayto and Di are chronically bored twentysomethings surviving in their dead-end rural Leitrim town. For fun, they spend their early October nights throwing illegally obtained fireworks out of a moving car. One night, they accidentally hit a young child, grievously injuring him. They hide the evidence in the woods and attempt to keep their heads down, but they start to struggle and self-destruct in the aftermath of their crime.
Chosen as part of the Druid Debuts 2025 and given a rehearsed reading at the Mick Lally Theatre, Galway.
Creative Team
Writer: Treasa Nealon
Director: Ellen Buckley
Cast: Eimear Keating, Garrett Lombard, Rory Nolan and Ali White
Dramaturg: Alice Malseed
Stage Manager: Rachel Stout
Technician: Jay de Burca
Company Stage Manager: Eavan Gribbin
Photographs by Emilija Jefremova
Audience Reaction
‘This was an excellent plot, a modern story which gripped me from the get go. The narrator was excellent in presenting the characters and this continued throughout. The writing was incredibly well thought out, with the feel of the characters understood and excellently portrayed. They sounded just like the young people in my community and how they go on, the turns of phrase and the things they get up to.’
‘It was gripping and hyper real from the start. I loved its unexpected nature, and in particular the quite profound way it caught the unconscious pull of intergenerational repetition... very freudean, and also very true to life.’
