Good Looking Boy at Arts Centre Washington
Box Clever Theatre take their hit Edinburgh show ‘Time for
the Good Looking Boy’ to Arts Centre Washington on Thursday
28 November.
This hard-hitting play for young
adults tracks the challenges of youth in the face of adulthood.
Following The Boy as he talks about
his memories and emotions, this compelling, witty and intimate play explores
the harsh realities of growing up, independence and the consequences of a night
when your life changes forever.
An urban ghost story, The Boy tells
his tale of love and loss in rhyming couplets with an original and haunting
soundtrack.
This is an account of an
extraordinary night in the life of an ordinary young man and a journey which
will change his life forever. Wherever that journey takes him, we are asked to
be part of it, to share it with the living and the dead.
Using the rhythms and gestures of
rap, often backed by composer Jon Nicholls's score, he tells us about the love
between him and this girl who thought him 'not bad-looking,' of her concern
about what will happen when she goes off to university. He talks about the way
his father left him and his mother when he was a little boy. He describes his
hurt refusal to respond to a dad he really loved when he came home to patch
things up, realising only much later that his Jamaican mother would have taken
her husband back if it had not been for his behaviour.
The script, and director Iqbal
Khan’s production, gives the piece a variety of pace to match the way the boy
moves from one aspect of life to another, through memories and emotions that
will be shared by all. When romantic idyll turns into tragedy the audience
finds it knows more than he does to give the plot added poignancy.
An original play for young people it
was written by Michael Wicherek, directed by Iqbal Khan (BROKENGLASS STARRING
ANTHONY SHER, WEST END), starring Lloyd Thomas (BBC RADIO, SEVEN DAYS OF
SUMMER), and presented by Box Clever (DIRTY KISSING, SIXTEEN UP).
Comments
Post a Comment
Due to repeated spam with dodgy links comments are now moderated before posting.