BANG! The Play

"BANG! A Love Story" was adapted as a play by Anthony Mora in 1999. "BANG!" played at the Acme Theater in Los Angeles and The American Place Theater in New York, and was a unique reading combined with a life theater presentation. The play began with Anthony reading from his work. As he read the screen darkened, the actors entered the stage and the reading transformed into a performance.


Linda Cardellini & Cliff Weissman in BANG! A Love Story at the American Place Theater in New York City
"BANG! A Love Story," which was released in hardcover in 1998 is both a coming-of-age and a mid-life-crisis novel. It tells the story of the relationship between a bright, precocious, damaged, gun-toting, teenage girl and a middle aged man who is searching for a point of resolve and certainty in his life.

"BANG!" featured Linda Cardellini in the lead role of pistol packing, precocious Janie. Linda is now best known as Velma in the Warner Brothers feature film "Scooby Doo," in which she co-stars with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.

Best known for her role in the TV drama E.R., Linda played the honor student in the midst of an identity crisis on NBC's acclaimed "Freaks and Geeks" (1999-2000), which has gone on to achieve cult status, and co-starred in "Legally Blonde" with Reese Witherspoon, Mathew Davis and Luke Wilson.

The play, which was directed by Ilo Orleans, and produced by Sarah Holcombe, also featured Dwier Brown (The Practice, Touched by an Angel), Ann Convery (St. Elsewhere, Perfect Strangers), and Richard Kuhlman (Sienfeld, Chicago Hope).


Author, Anthony Mora, Linda Cardellini & Dwier Brown in BANG! A Love Story at the Acme Theater in Los Angeles

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