The Boys Next Door

The setting is a shared home in a New England city, where four men with intellectual disabilities live under the watch of Jack, a young social worker who is growing weary of his job. Their daily routines are shaped by his efforts to keep the household running. Among the residents is Norman, who holds a job at a doughnut shop, and whose everyday life brings its own small dramas into the house. The home is a place of tenderness and friction, where the men's needs and Jack's exhaustion press against one another. Tom Griffin's play begins by laying out this uneasy community and the people who depend on it, setting up the situations that will test everyone involved.