In 2021 Andrew Flynn used his Activate Residency at Backstage to work collaboratively on the development of a stage adaptation of Donal Ryan’s 2018 Booker longlisted novel From A Low and Quiet Sea. The residency gave Andrew an opportunity to find a theatrical treatment that best served the characters, stories and landscape of the novel and the support to allow the necessary thinking time to mould an adaptation away from the pressures of a rehearsal room and an opening night.