Some Girl(s) is an entertainer. Written by Neil LaBute, this play is a hilarious take on a today’s modern young man who is about to get married. Before he takes this “big step” he visits some girls…his ex girlfriends – four of them to be precise.
The most striking aspect of the play is the sheer variety in the four girls he meets up with in hotel rooms of their respective cities. It symbolizes the confusion he’s always been through in “search” of the perfect girl. The first is the homely kind who is married and settled with kid(s) but dreams of a more “exciting” life, the second is this adventurous and super- hot interior designer who does not believe in marriage and the third is an older woman who has an even older husband! The fourth girl has a twin sister, who also happens to be one of our guy’s ex’s.
The play is equally divided as conversations with each of these four girls. The conversations are light, humorous, witty and truly entertaining. This is intelligent comedy almost as good as it can get.
Like The Shape of Things, another Neil LaBute play which I loved, this one too has a nice twist in the tale. It’s not something which will blow your head off, but like the rest of the play, it is light and humorous.
If you’re a guy and have ever been dumped/ broken up with a girl (which I presume is around 40% of people who’ll be reading this, the other 50% probably being girls and a small 10% guys who’ve never been dumped) you’ll really enjoy this play. Living vicariously through the protagonist, this play is going to make you feel that you CAN command some power in your relationship. Well, in real life, this is not true. If it is a relationship, the girl will have all the power. But this is a play, wishful thinking is allowed. :D
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But this is a play, wishful thinking is allowed.
:)
I am finding a theatre here.. I hear that there are a few.. but then I need company :( sob sob
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