FULL-LENGTH PLAYS 

The New Jersey Rep/Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey production of BIG BOYS

(photos by SuzAnne Barabas)

BIG BOYS

a comedy by Rich Orloff

(2 m.)

“Rip-roaringly funny.  An on-target skewering of the ethically murky cesspool among corporate America’s elite.  With its snappy dialogue and non-stop mayhem, BIG BOYS proves a winner.”

        New York Times

“A truly funny show.  A couple of hours spent in the giddily absurd world of BIG BOYS can wreak havoc with one’s gyroscope of logic and priorities.”

        Asbury Park Press

BIG BOYS is a two-character comedy about the relationship between a self-satisfied, grandiose, amoral and very successful boss, and his insecure, moral, eager-to-please and very unhappy assistant.  Influenced by the surreal energy and comic rhythms of vaudeville and sketch comedy, BIG BOYS is an over-the-top comic fable about what men value and what they’ll do to get it..

Winner             2000  Auricle Award, Portland OR

Winner             1997  InterPlay International Play Festival, Rochester NY

2nd Place         2002  Kaufman and Hart Prize for New American Comedy

BIG BOYS premiered in November, 2002 as a co-production between New Jersey Repertory Theatre and Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey.