⚠️ BOYS WILL BE DOGS🐕
Sat, Aug 23
|Brooklyn
Three roommates. One teenage brother. And a dog named Cupcake. As Logan spirals into toxic beliefs and the dog grows more aggressive, the line between training and conditioning — human or canine — begins to blur.
Time & Location
Aug 23, 2025, 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Brooklyn, 68-117 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
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About the event
Roommates Sloane, Blue and Teddy make up an odd support system for Sloane’s teen brother Logan; they do their best, but they’re adults with their own lives and they tend towards distraction. When Logan descends into radical misogyny following the start of his first relationship, they’re unable to see the signs until it’s too late and his behavior erupts into violence - leaving them to manage the fallout. "Boys Will Be Dogs" is a bystander story, told from the perspective of the roommates in the weeks preceding Logan's incident as his worsening psychology is mirrored by the worsening reactivity and violence of neighborhood dog Cupcake, one of Blue's dogwalking clients. With the lens of dog behavior and conditioning applied to the patriarchal mindset, "Boys Will Be Dogs" asks the audience to consider that any constructed set of social rules stems from neither biology nor destiny, but from social conditioning. And…