Synopsis
Golden Boy
Published by Dramatists Play Service
Large Mixed Cast
At heart a musician - he has a real talent for the violin - he longs to be "top man" in some other field. So he goes into the prizefighting racket and becomes surprisingly good at it
In each fight he becomes more and more brutish and finally in a big match he kills his opponent. With both hands broken and his spirit crushed, money and fame mean nothing to him
Not even Lorna, the girl who once gave him courage to face defeat, can lift him out of his despair. Driving madly through the night to forget everything, Joe and Lorna are killed
A Group Theatre success in New York, a standard play of the modern American Theater
"A play quick with life, pungent in dialogue and characterization, stirring and comic" ~ Sun
Cast of 17 men and 2 women