A False Friend
A False Friend centres on a state-funded experiment and the damage it leaves behind—tracing unchecked power, complicity, and the long psychological fallout of systemic abuse.
What happens when progress requires a victim?
Drama
Form
Full Length
In development — ACE R&D application submitted.
Director: Llyrio Boateng
Highly Commended by the National Theatre 
. BBC Writersroom 
Top 10%. Alfred Fagon 
Award, Best New Play Longlist.
A fierce need to confront how the state weaponises bureaucracy pushed me to write A False Friend. It’s rooted in the ways progress is used as a cover for exploiting the vulnerable.
—Llyrio Boateng
Llyrio Boateng is available to discuss the work as writer or writer-director.
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