Mad About the Boy

Synopsis

Boy wants to be bad like the rest. Dad wants the best for the Boy. Man wants the Boy to do what's best. A lyrical tussle of will and minds. Winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2011, this timely, urgent, razor-sharp drama sees a teenage boy fighting to save his reputation.

Our Review:

Simon Harvey-Williams - 27 September 2012

Mad about the Boy begins in a simple but effective way with the play’s three un-named characters offering up separate monologues which slowly inter-connect to focus on the teenage boy of the title. The boy is flanked by his exasperated father and the well-meaning school counsellor as they try to understand his wayward behaviour and argue about the best way of re-directing his energy.

The ‘boy’ is eager to be seen as a man and his behaviour seems to be his way of asserting his adulthood – no matter how misdirected. These difficult steps from child to grown-up offer up various paths to go down and unfortunately for the play’s protagonist his route is affected not only by his circumstances but also by the bad choices he makes. As they discuss how they are going to deal with things the father’s traditional views on discipline contradict the more liberal views held by the counsellor and the two men find very little common ground on how to deal...

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