The Boy With The Torn Hat

by Marc Sully

A New Jersey shore town ravaged by the most recent hurricane rebuilds amid White Collar gentrification. Erosion not just along the beach, but across the town as New Wealth moves in and takes advantage of the property damage. The Wheeler family converges on their old home wondering what to do next. Water flooded the inside. Floors and walls need to be torn out and repaired. The house might even need to be...

A New Jersey shore town ravaged by the most recent hurricane rebuilds amid White Collar gentrification. Erosion not just along the beach, but across the town as New Wealth moves in and takes advantage of the property damage. The Wheeler family converges on their old home wondering what to do next. Water flooded the inside. Floors and walls need to be torn out and repaired. The house might even need to be lifted. Selling would be easy. Wall Street wealth would buy quickly, knock down the home, and put up something ostentatious and overblown. Having split time between the shore and Carolina, Donald and Elise are ready to move south for good. It is time to let their three daughters decide who will live here. The eldest, Megan, lives close but still attempting a life on her own. Lynn, married with one daughter and pregnant with twins, only recently relocated from the city to a town twenty minutes away. Both she and her husband are not sure they fit in. But Nellie Wheeler, the youngest daughter, has been never left. She's been here all along as her sisters left for college and as her parents started spending half the year elsewhere. She's the hold out, still around, holding on to an NJ shore life that no longer exists. She even survived the hurricane. More than anymore else, Nellie needs to move on, but as she drags home another man from the bar, she has no intention of going anywhere.

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The Boy With The Torn Hat

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  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: The Boy With The Torn Hat

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Marc Sully and their play The Boy with the Torn Hat as a finalist for our 2013 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Marc Sully and their play The Boy with the Torn Hat as a finalist for our 2013 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

Awards

  • O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
    Finalist
    2013