# Bully Boy

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{{Short description|Play by Sandi Toksvig}}
{{For|the darts player nicknamed "Bully Boy"|Michael Smith (darts player)}}
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'''''Bully Boy''''' is a play by British-Danish playwright and comedian [Sandi Toksvig](/source/Sandi_Toksvig).  The show opened at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton, on 13 May 2011,<ref>[https://archive.today/20130210120818/http://www.whatsonstage.com/features/theatre/southeast/E8831305145928/Sandi+Toksvig+on+Bully+Boy.html Sandi Toksvig on ''Bully Boy'']</ref> with [Anthony Andrews](/source/Anthony_Andrews) as Major Oscar Hadley and Joshua Miles as Private Eddie Clark. The play then launched the debut season of [St James Theatre](/source/St._James_Theatre%2C_London) in September 2012, the first new [West End](/source/West_End_of_London) theatre to open in 30 years.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19636447 St James Theatre in London's West End opens]</ref>

==Plot==
The play considers the impact of war on the relationship between an officer, Oscar, who uses a wheelchair after service in the [Falklands](/source/Falklands_War), and Eddie, a young private accused of throwing an eight-year-old boy down a well during a raid in the Middle East.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/may/15/bully-boy-review Bully Boy – Review]</ref> The show is critical of politicians who launch wars without regard for the consequences.

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