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Outhouse Theatre Company presents
The Boys
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 through Saturday, September 23, 2006
The American Premiere of Gordon Graham's award-winning and controversial drama about three brothers whose brutal attitudes torward women may have led them to commit rape and murder.
Length: 1 hr 50 mins
Intermission: Yes
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
“THE BOYS” takes a hard-hitting and graphic look at violence towards women and the many factors that fuel it. When Brett Sprague is released from prison, younger brothers Glenn and Stevie throw him a homecoming party. As the beer flows, tensions begin to arise between the boys and their women: hot-headed Brett accuses his girlfriend of infidelity while he was locked up, the passive Glenn becomes angered by his controlling girlfriend’s haughty attitude toward his family, and Stevie wants to dump his pregnant girlfriend despite his mother’s demands to the contrary. The brothers’ anger soon turns into rage against women in general and they leave the party together. The next day a woman is found brutally raped and murdered and the brothers are taken into custody. But are 'the boys' capable of committing such a hideous crime?
The play premiered at the Stables Theatre in Sydney, Australia, where it won the prestigious Australian Writers Guild Award. The Sydney Morning Herald wrote “Gordon Graham has succeeded in creating a play characterized by qualities of suspense and humor, compassion and acute observation. Dramatically, it is mesmeric. It’s a work that has to be seen.” In 1998, a feature film version of “The Boys” was released starring Toni Colette and David Wenham.
Featured in the cast: FIANA TOIBIN (Broadway’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” with Vanessa Redgrave, “The Weir,” “Shining City”); KIMBERLY COOPER (from TV’s “Home and Away”); as well as SARAH-JANE CASEY, NICO EVERS-SWINDELL, ANGELA LEDGERWOOD, NICK STEVENSON and JEREMY WATERS.
OUTHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY is dedicated to the cultivation and development of both emerging and established Australian theatre artists. The company’s work explores the similarities and differences between Australian and American cultures and produces theatre that fuses the respective strengths of both countries’ theatrical traditions to create fresh new work for the New York stage. |
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