Aven’U Boys
Price range: $12.95 through $15.00
Description
A glimpse into urban youth survival. When three Brooklyn Italian teenagers murder an innocent boy, they are immediately faced with the choice of redemption or naïve bravado. Like a slow-brewing cancer, this nightmare unwarily grows and festers within and ultimately overcomes each of them at a time when a child normally grows into the responsible decision-making adult they should become.
Production Info
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Press Quotes
“AVEN’U BOYS is not for those with a low tolerance for verbal and visual violence, but it can be enthusiastically recommended to anyone who wants to step into a fever dream of urban America 1993, as searingly realized by a new and gifted 29-year-old playwright named Frank Pugliese … his gripping style, in which fragmented dialogue and incidents seem to slice through the night like switch blades, casts its own disturbing spell. The playwright is less interested in drawing pat conclusions than in jolting the audience into a world it might ordinarily ignore … Such is the tragic context of AVEN’U BOYS that these battered women seem the last, best hope for salvation in a city poised for civil war.” —Frank Rich, The New York Times
Author
Frank PuglieseFrank Pugliese's credits for the stage include KAOS (New York Theatre Workshop); AVEN'U BOYS (Off-Broadway, Obie Award); THE KING OF CONNECTICUT, THE TALK, THE ALARM (all with Naked Angels); "HOPE" IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS, LATE NIGHT — EARLY MORNING (The Drama Dept.); THE CRAZY GIRL (NY Stage and Film, Gloucester Stage). His film credits include Born to Run (Fox); Infamous (Hart-Sharp, HBO); Shot in the Heart (directed by Agineszka Holland, produced by Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana). His television credits include Night of the Living Dead, Homicide (WGA Award); Love and Blood, Fallen Angels (Cable Ace Award Nomination). Mr. Pugliese has directed numerous Off-Broadway productions and is a former Artistic Director of Naked Angels. He won the Forbes Herman award for playwriting. He was honored by New York University's Tisch School of the Arts as their outstanding alumni in the field. Mr. Pugliese is a consultant for the Cherry Lane Mentor Program. He teaches playwriting and screenwriting at Columbia University and the New School. He is a proud member of Naked Angels and the Drama Dept.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 12/8/2016 |
| Pages | 102 |
| ISBN | 9780881451146 |
Special Notes
Originally produced at the John Houseman Theater
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com