Boy is a play for those people who don’t normally go to the theatre.
It’s a play with characters that don’t normally feature in plays: toddlers and children, people with learning difficulties, Polish construction workers, residents living on council estates, people in fact as cosmopolitan as London itself.
Above all the action revolves (literally with a stage that’s part travellator) around the grimy journey of a teenage boy through adolescence.
The performances are authentic, the dialogue is spoken not delivered to an eavesdropping audience and the script is as crisp as a new fiver.
Boy makes more connections for marginalised voices especially disabled people than does London Underground. Just like Joe Strummer of the Clash “boy” finds that the future is unwritten and sometimes that’s the sweetest news of all.
The play is on now at the Almeida Theatre off Upper Street in Islington until Saturday 28 May.
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