Boiler Room Coverup: The Play: Children Who Witness Murders Do Not Grow Up to Be Writers

The Boiler Room:The Play is based on a tragic event experienced by the author on September 12, 1964, while a 12 year old 8th grader at Chicago’s McKinley Upper Grade Center on the city’s near Westside. The dialogue is exclusively between two boys, Liljohn and Elmo, both 12 years old. They will takes you through their trials, tribulations and imagination as they are trapped by the horror of violence resulting in death of an intruder on school grounds by the school policeman , and fears of being targeted for witnessing the incident.