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Boys Will Be Boys Play Analysis
On March 3rd, I went to a play called Boys Will Be Boys in UNI’s Interpreters Theatre. I initially went because a friend of mine was in it and they asked me to attend. I was excited because i’ve only seen plays done by Theatre UNI, so it would be a nice change to see a smaller scale production. The theatre is located in Lang Hall. It was a very intimate theatre with little to no staging. The actors had to rely solely on a few props and their ability to act.

The play was written by a UNI grad student and centered around America’s twisted standard of masculinity. Each scene dealt with a different theme within masculinity like dominance, alcohol, women, and rape. Though many scenes seemed embellished for the sake of proving a point, it was

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