Play review – “The Boys” by Gordon Graham

A play that has been subsequently overshadowed somewhat by the film version, where writer Stephen Sewell made some key changes. This one, too, cuts back and forth between the events leading up to the crime and some time afterwards, but the “some time afterwards” focuses more on the women involved. In particular the character played by Toni Collette in the film has more to do. The down side is much of the play’s dialogue is “on the nose”, spelling out the “violence against women” a bit too obviously (surely it’s a bit more subconscious than this).