In the summer of 1483, Prince Edward and his younger brother Prince Richard were taken to the Tower of London by their uncle Richard in preparation for Edward’s coronation. By the end of the summer their uncle was crowned as the infamous Richard III and the princes were never seen again. This two-hander imagines the final months of the princes in the tower as they fight, play, and begin to come of age. Comedic, deliberately anachronistic, and unsettling, If I Live Until I Be A Man explores life as a young boy growing up in a state of perpetual war that echoes through the twenty-first century. Devised through historical research and our memories of imaginary play while growing up during the war on terror, this one act explores the conflict between the perceived threat of foreign invasion and the all too real failure of adults at home.