Overview

Four boys face the tricky transition to adulthood in Ella Hickson's riot of a play. The Class of 2011 are about to graduate and Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their flat. Stepping into a world that doesn’t want them, these boys start to wonder whether there’s any point in getting any older. How will they find the fight to make it as adults? Before all that they’re going to have one hell of a party. It’s hot and there’ll be girls. Predict a riot. Ella Hickson's play Boys was first performed at the HighTide Festival, Halesworth, Suffolk, in May 2012, before transferring to the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, and Soho Theatre, London. 'Marvellous... a play that both powerfully captures the mood of a generation and addresses permanent truths with exhilarating flair' — Independent 'Will leave you with laughter lines' — Time Out 'Ella Hickson is one of the hottest young writers around and in Boys shows flashes of brilliance' — British Theatre Guide 'Heartfelt directness of writing that taps into a generation torn between action and inertia' — Guardian

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'Marvellous... a play that both powerfully captures the mood of a generation and addresses permanent truths with exhilarating flair' Independent; 'Will leave you with laughter lines' Time Out; 'Ella Hickson is one of the hottest young writers around and in Boys shows flashes of brilliance' British Theatre Guide; 'Heartfelt directness of writing that taps into a generation torn between action and inertia' Guardian

Author Information

Ella Hickson is an award-winning writer whose work has been performed throughout the UK and abroad. Her work includes: an adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus (Old Vic, London, 2025); Swive [Elizabeth] (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe, 2019); ANNA (National Theatre, 2019); The Writer (Almeida Theatre, 2018); Oil (Almeida Theatre, London, 2016); Wendy & Peter Pan (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2013 and 2015; Tokyo, 2021); Riot Girls (Radio 4); Boys (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton / Headlong Theatre / HighTide Festival Theatre, 2012); The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron/Traverse Theatre, 2012); Rightfully Mine (Radio 4); Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios/Tantrums Productions, 2011), Hot Mess (Arcola Tent/ Tantrums Productions, 2010) and Eight (Trafalgar Studios/Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, 2008/9). Author photo by Peter Hickson

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