BOYS NIGHT

Independent and Free Press
e/article/49191
May 21 2008
Canada

Director Sam Hancock greeted author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch at the
gala presentation of The Georgetown Boys at the John Elliott Theatre
last Wednesday. Skrypuch wrote the book, Aram’s Choice, which Hancock
adapted for the stage as The Georgetown Boys, presented by the members
of the Georgetown Little Theatre’s Youth Company. The story is about
110 Armenian orphan boys who were brought to Canada in 1923 after
surviving a genocide to live in Georgetown and train as farmers. Many
of the descendants attended the gala presentation. Members of the
Youth Company (below) were presented with Armenian pins from an
Armenian community group