Playwright Anna Ziegler began Boy as a direct homage to David Reimer, who in1967 at 18-month-old, was left with damaged genitals due to a circumcision accident. Desperate, his parents turned to Dr. John Money, who spearheaded the John Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic, who suggested that David's parents raise him as a girl while continuing to raise his twin brother as a boy. Though the final production is more of a rumi…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 01:27PM on January 24, 2018