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Matt & Ben

It's the story

Hollywood has glamorized, publicized, and bombarded us with—how it all began

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for the two young men, now famous for the tabloid coverage of ther

on-again-off-again romances, their big budget smashes and flops, and their

"Project Greenlight." It started with a script for the film that

became Good Will Hunting, slaved over by the

bright young dreamers (portrayed in this play's permier by the female

playwrights) in their run-down apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1996.

Or was it This hilarious, scathing play takes us back to the pivotal moment

when the finished script that would change their lives...fell from the ceiling

while they were working on something else. The laughs come at a manic pace, in

this delightfully venomous play that has taken off-Broadway by storm.

Genre
humorliterary fiction
Themes
theatre
Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
short · 112 pages
Form
plays

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