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Boys Will Be Dogs

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Lacrosse star Logan has a lot going for him; he’s sixteen, has a near-guaranteed scholarship to Yale, and just got his very first girlfriend. But when pressures mount and Logan turns to alt-right manosphere podcasts for guidance, the adults in his life are all too busy to notice. As his elder sister Sloane, her spouse Blue and their roommate Teddy navigate queer friendship, shared secrets and a particularly violent neighborhood dog named Cupcake, Logan’s mentality deteriorates in the foreground in an abstract space called “the turf”. When his radicalization erupts into an act of violence too big to ignore, will the roommates be able to help him? Will they even want to? A play about what makes a good dog go bad, and whether or not they can learn new tricks.

Play, 2f 1m 1 transmasc 1nb, 2 any

Lacrosse star Logan has a lot going for him; he’s sixteen, has a near-guaranteed scholarship to Yale, and just got his very first girlfriend. But when pressures mount and Logan turns to alt-right manosphere podcasts for guidance, the adults in his life are all too busy to notice. As his elder sister Sloane, her spouse Blue and their roommate Teddy navigate queer friendship, shared secrets and a particularly violent neighborhood dog named Cupcake, Logan’s mentality deteriorates in the foreground in an abstract space called “the turf”. When his radicalization erupts into an act of violence too big to ignore, will the roommates be able to help him? Will they even want to? A play about what makes a good dog go bad, and whether or not they can learn new tricks.

About the Author

Al Groppi (they/them) is an interdisciplinary theater artist based in Brooklyn, originally from Illinois. As a playwright, their works have been seen across NYC and IL at venues including Brooklyn Art Haus, WOW Cafe Theater, The Chain, The Rat, and Beacon Arts Annex. They are a Parity Development Awards Finalist, an O'Neill National Playwrighting Conference Semifinalist, a former resident of Letter of Marque's Emerging Playwrights Lab and an EAG Open Space Grant recipient (Winter 2027, LoM). For more of their work, you can read their short play "Down There" online via Apricity Magazine. MMC BFA Acting 2020, @algroppi