The Bomb
Playwright & Direction: Anders Falstie-Jensen
Performance: Liesha Ward-Knox, Russell Pickering, Jo Lees, Michael Downey, Catherine Nola & Richard Rugg
Set Design: Stephen Bain
Lighting Design: Bonnie Burrill
The Bomb was performed in 2024 by Year 12 & 13 students from Waiheke High School.
Should you be interested in staging The Bomb (it’s a lot of fun!) feel free to get in touch.
From a worn down missile silo in a godforsaken former Soviet republic a 50 megaton thermonuclear warhead has found its way to Lisa and Peter’s living room. It’s armed, the timer is set, everything is going according to plan.
But then Lisa gets second thoughts. Is vaporizing Auckland taking things a bit too far?
Featuring napalm carrying suicide skydivers and a big nuclear weapon in the hands of a mysterious organisation called The Children of Gaia, The Bomb is a dark and thought provoking comedy. It is about fanaticism. It’s about hoping the people that lead you know what they’re doing. It’s about being able to make a decision. Hopefully the right one.
A play about wanting to change the world (Right now!) The Bomb has proven popular with High Schools.
In 2007 we did make a youtube trailer for The Bomb. It required patience to see because most of us was on dial-up back then.
