The Boys Are Kissing

<p><b>Shortlisted for Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2023</b><br><b>Finalist for Most Promising New Playwright at the Offies Awards 2024</b><br><br><i>Look, gang, what we need to keep sight of is, this isn''t about us. It''s not personal...</i><br><i>It''s about the children.</i><br><br>When two 9-year-old boys kiss in the school playground of a small town, two sets of parents are told to ‘do something about it’ – but neither of them are entirely sure what.<br><br>Amira is sending inclusive children’s books to the school library, whilst her wife Chloe dreams of a kitchen island. Sarah is trying her best not to upset the Mum WhatsApp group, and her husband Matt just really wants to do the right thing – as soon as he can work out what that is. Luckily, here to guide our helpless humans are two cherubic winged guardians of the gays, summonsed to attend to a disturbance in the queer atmos and intervene only where strictly necessary… but where’s the fun in being an ethereal being if you can’t drop in and cause a scene wearing latex?<br><br><i>The Boys Are Kissing</i> is a riotous comedy about angelic intervention, children’s birthday parties gone sour, and whether it ever really is ''just about the children'', written by 503Five 2019-20 alumni Zak Zarafshan.<br><br>This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Theatre503, London, in January 2023.</p>