Bang Bang You're Dead (play)

This article is about the play. For the film, see Bang Bang You're Dead (film). For the song by Dirty Pretty Things, see Bang Bang You're Dead (song). For the 1966 comedy film with the alternative release title "Bang! Bang! You're Dead!, see Our Man in Marrakesh.
Bang Bang Dead
Written byWilliam Mastrosimone
Date premieredApril 7, 1999
Original languageEnglish
SubjectSchool violence

Bang Bang You're Dead is a 1999 one-act play written by William Mastrosimone. Inspired by the Thurston High School shooting, the play follows a high school shooter who is tormented in his jail cell by apparitions of the five classmates he killed. A film adaptation, also written by Mastrosimone was released in 2002; it depicts a high school production of the play where one of the actors struggles to avoid becoming a shooter like the play's lead character.