Dead End
Dead End Author: Sidney Kingsley
First Performance: 1935, New York
Published: 1936
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Slum street, New York, 1930s
Cast: 25m, 6f, 3 young boys
Tommy McGrath is the leader of a gang of six young lads, who live in a dead-end slum street ending at the East River. They play, dive into the polluted river, and sneer at rich passers-by heading for the adjacent luxury apartments. Gimpty Pete, an unemployed young architect crippled with rickets, continues to live in the slum but hopes to win the love of an attractive girl from the luxury apartments. Babyface Martin, a hardened gangster, returns to the slum to visit his mother and his former girlfriend, but his mother rejects him and his girlfriend is now a diseased prostitute. The dead-end kids challenge neighbouring rich kids to a game of...
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