Easy access (for the boys)
By: Claire Dowie
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: 'Easy Access (For The Boys)' is a hard-hitting and uncomfortable play about victims of child abuse, and the challenging complexity of their relationships with their abusers. Michael and his friend Gary were both sexually abused by their fathers. Michael, a young prostitute, is making a video diary with Gary's help - an attempt to understand his past and the lies he has been told by his father and by himself. When his dad gets a new assistant and she and her young son move in with him, Michael's determination to protect the child leads him to revisit the past in more ominous detail. Mixing video footage and on-stage conversations, this is a story of blame, love and confusion, in which the sufferings of the past spill over into the rage of the present. 'Easy Access (For The Boys)' premiered at the Drill Hall in 1998.
Notes: Previously issued in print: with All over lovely. London: Methuen Drama, 1998.over lovely. London: Methuen Drama, 1998.