House Boy

A contemporary urban thriller with socio-political and racial overtones, “HOUSE BOY”, is the new play by Lorenzo DeStefano (“Shipment Day”, “Camera Obscura”, “Providence”). Set in South India and the U.K., this fact-based tale inhabits a shadowland where ancient traditions take root and prosper in our so-called modern world. Far from the impoverished rural village of Chettipattu, in the polite suburb of Hendon, North London, in an undistinguished house at 321 Finchley Lane, the lives of a young Dalit man, Vijay Pallan, and an Indo-British woman and her son, Binda & Ravi Tagorstani, collide as if decreed by history. Through Vijay’s harrowing misadventures and ill-treatment in this household, we experience the shocking realities of modern slavery, the human spirit’s boundless capacity for pain, and the ultimate blessing of one young man’s redemption and survival.