Synopsis

Last of the Boys

Last of the Boys $13

Steven Dietz

Published by Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

Ben and Jeeter fought in Vietnam, and for thirty years they have remained united by a war that divided the nation

Joined by Jeeter's new girlfriend and her off-the-grid whiskey-drinking mother, these friends gather at Ben's remote trailer for one final hurrah

As the night deepens, the past makes a return appearance, and its many ghosts come flickering to life

This is a fierce, funny, haunted play about a friendship that ends - and a war that does not

"Dietz has conjured the 1960s and the war in Vietnam better than any playwright has managed to date. Ghosts appear and disappear in this play ... and these ghosts are in many ways permanent residents in the bodies and psyches of those who fought in the war, as well as those who became its indirect casualties. Their presence creates a restless, burning, grief-stricken quality - but it doesn't prevent the eruption of great bursts of pitch black humor; comic explosions that detonate from time to time as if someone had just tripped over a forgotten hand grenade" ~ Chicago Sun-Times

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