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Boy Gets Girl

Boy Gets Girl
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Rebecca Gilman
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 94
Pub. Date: 2001
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 1583420835
ISBN-13: 9781583420836
Cast Size: 3 female, 4 male

About the Play:

Boy Gets Girl has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues and Female/Male Scenes.

Boy Gets Girl is a full-length drama by Rebecca Gilman. What is a stalker? And what kind of life can a woman lead when she knows she is being followed, obsessively and perhaps dangerously, by one? Boy Gets Girl starts with an innocent blind date that seems to go well and she agrees to dinner. But when flowers arrive every day and the phone keeps ringing, she doesn't know whether to feel flattered, angry or threatened.

Boy Gets Girl is a searing and thought-provoking play about the dangers of stalking. Theresa Bedell is a successful reporter in Manhattan who loves her work at a "New York" style magazine and the life she has made for herself. A relationship with a man would complete the picture. Driven and no-nonsense, with little time for social life, she agrees to go on a blind date with a friend of a friend. Tony is attractive and funny, but Theresa isn't sure, and after a second date she's convinced they have nothing in common and sees no point in continuing the relationship. Tony, though, thinks otherwise. While Theresa is at first annoyed yet flattered by his continuing attention, her strength and independence begin to unravel as what seems like persistence on his part grows into obsession. Theresa's annoyance with Tony turns to terror as he continues to refuse to take no for an answer and begins to threaten her and those around her. Ultimately, Theresa must fight to save herself from being erased by Tony's actions which call into question the assumptions at the very heart of romantic pursuit. In brilliantly delineating the kind of terror a woman in full control of her life feels when everything around her suddenly seems to be a threat, Rebecca Gilman probes the dark side of relationships with the rich insight and compelling characterizations that have distinguished her earlier plays and made her one of the most exciting playwrights working today.

Boy Gets Girl premiered in 2000 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and was Time Magazine #1 play of the year! The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and has been mounted by colleges and community theatres.

Cast: 3 female, 4 male

What people say:

"Rebecca Gilman is a playwright to hail. Boy Gets Girl is gripping and important — One of the finest, most disturbing American plays in years!" — TIME magazine

"In Boy Gets Girl, Rebecca Gilman offers up a tale of Gotham singledom you won't be seeing any time soon on 'Sex and the City.' A disturbing chiller about a woman whose life of accomplishment is quickly destroyed by a disturbed admirer, the play works powerfully at its most basic level, as a suspenseful tale about the unraveling of a strong woman's sense of security in the urban jungle. It certainly will touch a tender nerve in everybody who's ever squirmed through a creepy blind date…." — New Yorker

"[A] provocative, unsettling play, further proof of Gilman's ability to shake up a theater audience with the power of her ideas — and words." — Chicago Tribune

"A smart, unsettling play!" — Wall Street Journal

"The play is first-rate." — The New York Times

About the Playwright:

Rebecca Gilman is an American playwright who received her M.F.A. in playwriting from the University of Iowa in 1991. She is the first American playwright to win an Evening Standard Award for The Glory of Living (seen in the UK at the Royal Court Theatre), which also won the George Devine Award, was named one of Time magazine's Best Plays of the Decade, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been produced in the US at such venues as the Lincoln Center Theatre in New York, the Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Manhattan Class Company, in the UK at the Royal Court Theatre, as well as other theatres internationally. A native of Alabama, she was awarded the 2008 Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Most Distinguished Writer of the Year.

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