Introduction, The Dear Boy

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.

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.

Introduction Title Page & Notes Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4