Scituate area audiences will have the opportunity to travel back in time for a uniquely working class Irish American experience – life in a triple decker in Dorchester, 1965. True Repertory Theatre presents Ellen’s Boys, by Braintree playwright James Sullivan, at the First Trinitarian Congregational Church, 381 Country Way, Scituate.
Performances include May 9, 10, 16, 17 @ 8PM and matinees May 11, 18 @ 3PM. The May 10th performance will include a pre-performance gala reception featuring appetizers and a cash bar starting at 6PM for an inclusive price of $35. The company has partnered with local LGBTQIA+, and local Irish organizations, to highlight the play’s central theme of accepting change.
Ellen’s Boys focuses on the Flaherty family, living in their Dorchester triple decker, in 1965. Ellen, a widow who has raised six children on her own, must learn to accept the changing times and her aging children’s embrace of the future.
Her middle son, Gil, grown and still living at home, struggles to come to terms with his sexuality in the face of his staunch Irish Catholic upbringing, as his mother attempts to marry him off. We follow the Flaherty family through a tumultuous year of upheaval in which no secrets are safe, no boundaries are respected, and only their love for one another, and their sense of humor, can save them.
“True Rep strives to create an environment for local playwrights to be heard and audiences to experience something unique and eye opening. We are delighted to bring Ellen’s Boys to a wider audience,” says Artistic Director Donald Sheehan, who plays Gil in the True Rep production.
“You don’t have to be Irish to recognize this family,” says Victoria Bond, who plays Ellen. “Their dysfunction is tempered by love, and they are beautifully imperfect and deeply human. Audiences can’t help but root for the Flaherty family – just as we are rooting for this play.”
True Rep will be bringing Ellen’s Boys to NYC at the end of June for a limited two week run.
The playwright, James Sullivan of Braintree, who has been writing plays for 30 years, says, “I am humbled by the hard work and authenticity that True Rep brings to my play, and thrilled by the level of talent they bring to this production.”
The cast includes Don Sheehan of Pembroke, Victoria Bond of Plymouth; Elly Berke of Somerville; Julie Butler of Pembroke; Elias Wettengel of Salem; Rob Buckel-Gillis of Scituate; Justin Maloney of Quincy; and Jessica Moss of Newton.
Tickets are $25 General Admission and $22 Seniors & Students. The May 10th performance will include the option of a pre-performance gala reception featuring appetizers and a cash bar at 6PM for $35, inclusive.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit Tickets athttps://truereptheatre.com/Ellens-Boys/
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