Review: Boy at the Almeida Theatre

Boy 

Almeida Theatre

Reviewed on Wednesday 13th April 2016

★★★★

The Almeida has hauled the gnashing, award-winning Robert Icke away from Chekhov, Ibsen and Greek Tragedy for a month or two, and returned to the coal face of new writing. Boy, Leo Butler’s play about growing up in contemporary London, is an impressionistic 70-minute portrait of a lost generation, performed in the round on a constantly shifting conveyer belt of bus-stops, tube stations and drop-in centres.

Sacha Wares to direct BOY by Leo Butler at the Almeida Theatre

Following her success with Game by Mike Bartlett, Sacha Wares is returning to the Almeida Theatre to direct the world premiere of Leo Butler’s new play Boy.

Boy opens at the Almeida Theatre on 12th April (previews from 5th April) and runs until 28th May 2016. 

Set design is by Miriam Buether with costume by Ultz, movement by Leon Baugh, lighting by Jack Knowles and sound by Gareth Fry. Wares is associate director at the Young Vic and was previously Associate Director of the Royal Court from 2007-2013.