Boys

Nuffield Theatre, Southampton for the High Tide Festival, 2012 Producer Headlong/Hightide/Nuffield Writer Ella Hickson

It’s finals day for the Class of 2011. Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their five bedroom flat tomorrow morning; five bedrooms, five chairs, four boys – and one hell of a party. 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? Tonight marks the end of an era.

It’s hot. And there’ll be girls. Predict a riot.
Boys

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eloquently written exploration of vanishing youth ... the range and sheer vitality of the writing is enviable

David Benedict Variety

What an exciting writer Ella Hickson is ... Boys is invigorating, and brilliantly played: The Young Ones reborn as tragicomedy

Dominic Maxwell The Times

Hickson’s ambitious new play ... [her] writing bubbles with ideas and nice insights

Henry Hitchings The Evening Standard

Hickson’s fresh, urgent play ... a substantial achievement

David Jays The Sunday Times

Hickson’s marvellous play ... Tensions rise in a play that both powerfully captures the mood of a generation and addresses permanent truths with exhilarating flair

Paul Taylor The Independent

you have to admire her ambition and the heartfelt directness of writing that taps into a generation torn between action and inertia

Lyn Gardner The Guardian

Ella Hickson’s compelling new play

Natasha Tripney The Stage

this riotous sitcom ... will leave you with laughter lines and troubled thoughts

Honour Bayes Time Out