DAN O’BRIEN  |  The Dear Boy

Title Page & Notes

Characters:

James FLANAGAN     65
JAMES Doyle            17
RICHARD Purdy        37
ELISE Sanger           29

Time & Place:

Scene 1: After school, late December, 1990; Scarsdale Public
               High School, Scarsdale NY. Specifically, we’re in
               FLANAGAN’s office.

Scene 2: A party at a bar in the city, later that night.

Scene 3: An apartment (not ELISE's apartment), still later that night.

Scene 4: FLANAGAN’s office, early the next morning.

 

Detail of draft manuscript

 

Notes:

(1) A slash “/” in the script indicates overlapping dialogue.

(2) Nonverbal “lines” in the script:

FLANAGAN
. . . ?

or

FLANAGAN
. . .

      should be played as beats; most often as pauses.

(3) Dialogue in quotes and parentheses, i.e. (“Yes.”) or (“No.”),       indicates a nonverbal response.

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The Dear Boy was written with the support of the University of the South (Sewanee) and the Tennessee Williams Fellowship in Playwriting

The play has received subsequent development with Atlantic Theater Company, Roundabout Theatre Company, Geva Theatre Center, and Primary Stages

The Dear Boy was produced by Second Stage Theatre, August 2005.
Michael John Garcés, director.   

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