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    Humble Boy

    Humble Boy

    Presented by Publick Theatre Boston at BCA Plaza Theatre

    April 9-May 2, 2009

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    Publick Theatre Boston returns to the familiar, eclectic worlds of English gardens, strained family relations, and quantum physics with the New England premiere of this award-winning comedy by Charlotte Jones. Felix Humble, theoretical physicist, has left Cambridge and his search for a unified "Theory of Everything" to attend his beekeeper father's funeral- and finds himself in the middle of a hornet's nest instead. His overbearing mother Flora has exiled the bees, and taken the boorish next-door neighbor as her lover. Add a mousey family friend, a dutiful gardener, and a visitor from his own romantic past, and like the bees, Felix bumbles to find order amid the chaos. Allusions to Shakespeare's Hamlet anchor this comedy, as it takes the lid off the gardens of British suburbia to explore the physics of attraction and family, and the complex struggle to be (but not to bee) in a constantly shifting universe.


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      • Venue Info

        BCA Plaza Theatre

        527 Tremont Street
        Boston , MA 02118

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      • Admission Info

        Tickets: Preview Performances $20 (April 9-12) Tickets $35 (Center) $32 (Sides) Saturday Matinees $32 ($5 Discounts for Students/Seniors, WGBH Members & Harvard/MIT Faculty- 10% off for BCA ArtPass Members & Huntington Theatre Subscribers)

        Info Phone: 617-933-8600

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        April 9-May 2, 2009

        Times:
        Thursdays & Fridays @ 8pm
        Saturdays @ 3pm & 8pm
        Sundays @ 3pm

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        • Event Name: Humble Boy
          4 out of 5 stars rating "Unique & intriguing"
          Review posted by: J.White from Lawrence,MA, Apr 27, 2009

          This is a smartly dialogued play with well developed characters who all have their not so well hidden personal issues and we both laugh and cringe at their angst. Well worth a night out on the town!

        • Event Name: Humble Boy
          4 out of 5 stars rating "No reason to be humble"
          Review posted by: Blogger, Thomas Garvey from Boston, MA, Apr 18, 2009

          *Blogger Review* "Humble Boy" doesn't quite deliver the exciting pay- off that its initial buzz promises, but an outstanding cast still puts it in the running for one of the year's best. Full... Expand

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        • Event Name: Humble Boy
          4 out of 5 stars rating "Unique & intriguing"
          Review posted by: J.White from Lawrence,MA, Apr 27, 2009

          This is a smartly dialogued play with well developed characters who all have their not so well hidden personal issues and we both laugh and cringe at their angst. Well worth a night out on the town!

        • Event Name: Humble Boy
          4 out of 5 stars rating "No reason to be humble"
          Review posted by: Blogger, Thomas Garvey from Boston, MA, Apr 18, 2009

          *Blogger Review* "Humble Boy" doesn't quite deliver the exciting pay- off that its initial buzz promises, but an outstanding cast still puts it in the running for one of the year's best. Full... Expand

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