The Old Boy

The knowledge that Perry died of AIDS galvanizes Sam as memories of his own homophobic response to Perry's sexuality are played out in flashback. Sam's solution had been to arrange a marriage between Perry and one of Sam's discarded girlfriends, Alison

Faced now with the embittered Alison and a dawning sense of his own complicity in Perry's fate, Sam must decide whether or not to speak out on the issue of tolerance and jeopardize his chance for the governorship

He has to choose between his conscience and the old boy network which has served him so well

The elite and cloistered training ground for children of privilege - the New England prep school - is the setting for this powerful play. A distinguished alumnus returns to the school to dedicate a building to his best friend, now dead

The revelation that the man died of AIDS forces the successful politician to question his own responsibility for the dead man's conflicted life

In this witty and piercing drama, homophobia and its consequences force one man to confront the repressed, WASPy ruling class that has rewarded him, but also required him to remain an old boy well into middle age

Chosen by Time magazine as one of the year's 10 best plays for 1991

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" as powerful as anything this playwright has written there is no denying the sharpness of his witand his increasing mastery of his craft" ~ NY Times