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Girls and Boys
By Dennis Kelly
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An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they begin to settle down, buy a house, juggle careers, have kids – theirs is an ordinary family.
But then their world starts to unravel and things take a disturbing turn.
A tragic, violent look at parenthood and trauma.
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Dennis Kelly
Dennis Kelly’s plays include Debris, Osama the Hero, After the End, Love and Money, Taking Care of Baby, DNA, Orphans, The Gods Weep and The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas. His plays have been performed all over the world and have been translated into nearly thirty languages. For Television he co-wrote and created Pulling and has written and created Utopia for Channel Four. He also wrote the book for Matilda the Musical.
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Reviews for Girls and Boys
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I read the book in our common room, it was shocking but I can't really react like there're other people in the space, it was so hard when I read chat 11, the rawness and the anger. it ripped my heart out.
you felt you don't know what you felt but it makes you feel, it makes you human.
good play. the twist is everything, nice details. Dennis Kelly is brilliant.