Man and Boy

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Man and Boy

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 5m

Terence Rattigan

"I heard the name Bernard Madoff spoken more than once at intermission in the lobby of the American Airlines Theater, where Maria Aitken's revival of Terence Rattigan's 1963 drama Man and Boy opened on Sunday night.

Image: 2011 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Joan Marcus)

Man and Boy

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At the height of the Great Depression, ruthless financier Gregor Antonescu's business is dangerously close to crumbling. In order to escape the wolves at his door, Gregor tracks down his estranged son Basil in the hopes of using his Greenwich Village apartment as a base to make a company-saving deal. Can this reunion help them reconcile? Or will this corrupt father use his only son as a pawn in one last power play? A gripping story about family, success and what we're willing to sacrifice for both.

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    "I heard the name Bernard Madoff spoken more than once at intermission in the lobby of the American Airlines Theater, where Maria Aitken's revival of Terence Rattigan's 1963 drama Man and Boy opened on Sunday night. And it may partly be topical parallels that prompted the Roundabout Theater company to restage this lesser Rattigan work, which is set in 1934 and inspired by the spectacular fall of Ivar Krueger, an international business magnate of that era." - The New York Times

    "[The] play is set during the Great Depression, but feels eerily contemporary in its cynical portrayal of industry barons who think nothing of robbing the innocent and endangering the economy with their reckless power games...Rattigan works the father-son dynamic with subtle skill, using the contradictions of their strained relationship to keep the outcome of their awkward reunion in a state of unresolved tension." - Variety

    "Extremely well-crafted, highly effective... it could barely be more relevant in a world of financial corruption where Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff and his family have become emblems of wrongdoing." - TheatreMania.com

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      Image: 2011 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Joan Marcus)

    • Man and Boy

      Image: 2011 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Joan Marcus)

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    Terence Rattigan

    Terence Rattigan

    Born in London on the 10th June 1911, Terence Rattigan (1911–1977) was educated at Harrow (Scholar) from 1925 to 1930 and Trinity College, Oxford (History Scholarship) BA to 1933. He served as a flight Lieutenant in the Central Command, RAF from 1940 to 1945. In 1934 he had b ...

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