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Boy Gets Girl
Boy Gets Girl
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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
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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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