The Boys Next Door

The Play The Boys Next Door, written by Tom Griffin, was a surprising

Display of life from a set of “different” eyes. Many people, when they see mental

Impaired people, think to themselves “Thank god that’s not me.” The play went

into great detail of the daily lives of retarded and challenged people. Unless you

live with someone in that situation, you never really get to experience the full

effect of his or her existence. Anyway, on to my thoughts of this particular

performance. The actors were very good and you could definitely tell that they

spent a long time “getting it right.”

The only complaint I would have about the actors was the man

who played Norman. He was actually mentally challenged in real life, I read his

bio, and it said he was involved in many shows and other various productions. I

had a really h...