The Lightning Child is a 2013 play by Ché Walker, freely adapting The Bacchae by Euripides. Its premiere production at Shakespeare's Globe in London ran from 14 September to 12 October 2013 - the same theatre has previously put on Walker's The Frontline. The play includes songs by Arthur Darvill, who has also collaborated with Walker on The Frontline and the 2009 musical Been So Long. Darvill had to recommence work on the score from scratch in October 2012 after his laptop was stolen.