Reviewed by Tony Annicone
The third play of GAMM Theatre’s 40th Anniversary season is “Boys and Girls” by Dennis Kelly. It’s a 2016 one-woman British show that narrates a story of love, marriage, and, eventually, violence. She meets the man of her dreams, and the romance seems destined for greatness. Before long, the couple settles down and buys a house. Their life is filled with passion, success, and the joys of parenthood. They juggle careers; after having two children, Leanne and Danny, they seem to become an ordinary family. But as ambitions grow, things begin to unravel, and matters take an unexpected turn as her career takes an upspring by forming her own film company with Liam, and he goes in the opposite direction by not adapting from selling antique wardrobes to more contemporary ones.
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