A family living under one roof in New York must deal with a life-changing transformation by one that ultimately affects them all. Ray is a teenager who has come to the realisation that he isn't meant to be a girl and has decided to transition from female to male. His single mother, Maggie, must track down Ray's biological father to get his legal consent to allow Ray's transition. Dolly, Ray's lesbian grandmother, is having a hard time accepting that she now has a grandson. They must each confront their own identities and learn to embrace change and their strength as a family in order to ultimately find acceptance and understanding.

3 Generations 

The story starts at freshers. The play starts with a nosebleed.

Thrown together by university, three “boys” begin to realise just how difficult love is to communicate and how easy it is to misunderstand. Hookups and poets and beer mats aren't intervention enough; for them, and for as long as possible, it’s just Ro, Jam and Freddie. 

 is a queer and gender-expansive take on miscommunication, love and the messy second adolescence that many queer people face. What are the repercussions of bullying queer kids out of their “actual” boyhood? And most resoundingly, what do we reach for when we can’t say “I love you”?

 is presented by Mad Jacks Theatre. Mad Jacks are a new company whose work strives to move, confront and reimagine what queer and trans modes of theatre might look like. 

Scenes With Boys

Real boys skinny-dip, fight with swords and learn to masturbate together. At least that’s how the young men in 

imagine the boyhood they feel they were cheated out of. 

They are transgender, and now, as adults, they have decided to explore male identity formation in Northern Europe’s last wilderness. They have brought along a tent, gas fires and a slightly too clichéd list of all the things they need to experience on an educational journey that turns out to put their loving friendship to the test – and forces them into a modern existential battle in the middle of the nature they have otherwise always felt betrayed by.

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Boyhood