Director’s Notes
Memories are less about validating or authenticating the past
than they are about organizing the present and constructing
strategies with which one might imagine a livable future.
Alison Landsberg
The Sixties. Woodstock, Free love, Peace, Hippies, Hashish.
VIETNAM. The Sixties. Hendrix, Dylan, Donovan, Biaz, Beatles, Cocker,
Crosby, Counterculture, Cocaine. VIETNAM. The Sixties. Communism,
Cold War, Kennedy, Camelot, Johnson, Nixon, Napalm. VIETNAM.
The Sixties. Scrutinized, eulogized, epitomized, emphasized,
rationalized, and romanticized. VIETNAM…
With its infamies, explanations, and heartbreak the Vietnam War is
arguably the major event to engross the nation during this
tumultuous decade. It is no wonder that writers are drawn to the
resonance and power of the time. It is no wonder that Vietnam
remains an issue in our nation’s politics and a source of anger and
conflict for our nation’s people. It is no wonder that forty some years
later we are still willing, and perhaps eager, to witness yet another
rendering of the experience. ‘
I was drawn to this story by the characters who drive it and because
the war in Vietnam provides a rich backdrop against which to explore
the notions of love and loss, truths and half-truths, seeing and
believing …imagining the possibilities for a “livable future,” It has
been an incredible venture during which we as a company have
plotted and pondered, floundered, soared, sputtered, laughed, crie
and kicked to bring this work to fruition. I mean that in a good war.
Thank you for your patronage. You make the journey complete.

Susan Arnold- Director, “Last Of The Boys.”