Blue Hill Avenue is inspired by the true story of four young men and their journey from innocent young boys to feared criminals. Using Boston as a backdrop, this award winning production unfolds as a Shakespearen drama of redemption and loyalty.
We meet Tristan Mackey, Eddie "E Bone" Winslett, Simon Davis and Marlon "Money" Roberts, as teenagers in 1979. Their friendship and intense loyalty to each other enables them to rise from small time drug dealers in high school, to kingpins on Blue Hill Avenue, ten years later.
Tristan's wife Martine, his junior high sweetheart, has stuck with him through the good times and bad, but when she finds out she is pregnant she rethinks both hers and Tristan's values. She wants him to quit.
The friends rising power and influence in the drug trade on Blue Hill Avenue, along with Tristan's desire to leave "the game" initiates a violent confrontation with their mentor, drug lord Benny "Batman" Bateman and Police Detectives Torrance and Tyler.