Wild Animals You Should Know
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 20, 2011
Closed Dec 11, 2011
Opened Nov 20, 2011
Closed Dec 11, 2011
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Matthew and Jacob are an unlikely pair of friends. Matthew is a soccer star, full of brio and teenage swagger. Jacob is, well, not. Beneath the surface, though, the two are locked in an innocently erotic game of cat and mouse. When Matthew's reluctant father, Walter, is wrangled into chaperoning the boys' trip to a wilderness scout camp, he finds himself drawn into their adolescent game. But Matthew has secretly decided just how far he's willing to go for his final act of scouting and everyone might do well to heed the scout's motto: Be Prepared.
Playwright Thomas Higgins makes his New York debut with this tale of ruin and redemption that takes a magnifying glass to the sometimes blurry line between predator and prey. Trip Cullman, renowned for Off-Broadway hits like A Small Fire and The Bachelorette, will direct.
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A potential sex scandal within a Boy Scout troupe is the subject of Thomas Higgins' provocative yet flawed new play, Wild Animals You Should Know, presented by MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel. Director Trip Cullman has assembled a fine cast that keeps the production engaging, even when the script goes off track.
The plot centers on Matthew (Jay Armstrong Johnson), a teenaged Boy Scout who seems to have everything in his favor, and yet feels the urge to do something reckless and unpredictable. He sets his sights on his scoutmaster Rodney (John Behlmann), who Matthew discovers is gay, and determines to expose his secret.
Matthew tries unsuccessfully to enlist the help of his gay best fri[...]