Can You Hear the Pigeons

Writer-director William Electric Black (sometimes known as Ian Ellis James) returns to his frequent stomping grounds at Theater for the New City with an immersive play inspired by William Golding's boys-will-be-boys island adventure tale Lord of the Flies. In this version, the novel's protagonist, Ralph—on the verge of being killed by feral schoolchildren—imagines himself on a different island where teenagers have been sent during wartime.