Louis Nowra’s Australian family trilogy, ”The Boyce Trilogy” consists of the plays ”The Woman With Dog’s Eyes”, ”The Marvellous Boy” and ”The Emperor Of Sydney”. Property developer Boyce has one goal in life: to complete his final prestige project before his illness finishes him off and the sons take over the firm. In these three plays, Nowra depicts the power struggle between husband and wife, ambition and ideals using a rich, vivid language and sublime suspense. All the plays are completed stories with a main theme.
“The marvellous boy” is the youngest son, Boyce. Boyce is moving into dangerous new criminal territory, and falling in love at the same time. The woman with whom he falls in love is not only the biggest opponent of the project, but also his father’s former lover. The results are tragic.
