Trophy Boys
Written by Emmanuelle Mattana
Directed by Danya Taymor
MCC Theater
July 31, 2025
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💉💉💉 out of 5.

Trophy Boys was a most novel, explosive, concentrated 70 minutes of classroom drama.  Staged by Danya Taymor of both The Outsiders and John Proctor is the Villain, the play is amplified with dance moves, blaring music and flashing lights – here – not as successfully as in the previous two works.  According to the playwright’s non-negotiable terms, her drama’s four 17-something male characters must be enacted by female, gender non-conforming and/or non-binary performers wearing schoolboy drag.  The play is set inside the classroom at a private school for girls – all the classroom walls were covered with historical female icons.