About the Play:

Fast Girls has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female/Female Scenes.

Fast Girls is a full-length romantic comedy by Diana Amsterdam. It's the mid-80s, and two single girls are neighbours in a chic Manhattan building. The wild one loves men, freedom, and sex; the neurotic one wants to be married. Fast Girls is a comedy about sex, love, dating, relationships, mothers, boyfriends, and food.

Fast Girls is a precursor to the American rom-com classic Sex and the City. This fast-paced comedy is also a buddy story about two single women in the city, in the late eighties, when the sexual revolution hit a definite snag. Lucy Lewis is a divorcee in her 30s, who loves men, being single, and playing the field; she is a successful career woman and a "fast girl." Her best friend and neighbour Abigail McBride seeks a suitable husband and, in her mid-thirties, is definitely desperate, declaring that she realized, too late, that "high standards and loneliness are one and the same thing." Lucy's mother Mitzi comes to town. Her goal: to convince Lucy that she has GOT to settle down before it's too late, and she sends over Lucy's ex-boyfriend Sidney to seal the deal. In one of the funniest second acts in theatre history, Lucy pretends to cook for Sidney and be a "good girl" to show him how ridiculous it is; but the charade backfires. Meanwhile, her boytoy-of-the-minute keeps turning up, never suspecting the hornet's nest he is strolling into. Fast Girls is a proven crowd-pleaser, single women in their twenties and thirties dramatically bond with Lucy and Abigail; older audiences adore the character of the mother, Mitzi – a riotous segment where Mitzi patiently tries to explain on the phone to her husband where certain domestic items are is just about worth the price of admission alone.

Fast Girls premiered in 1988 at Paul Sorvino's American Stage Company in Teaneck, New Jersey. It has been produced all over the world and translated into several languages. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and is regularly performed in regional, college, and community theatre productions..

Cast: 3 female, 2 male

What people say:

"Amsterdam makes us laugh, listen and think." — Daily Record

"Brilliantly comic moments." — The Monitor

"Rapidly paced comedy with a load of laughs... A funny entertainment with some pause for reflection on today's [sexual] confusion." — Suburban News

"Takes a penetrating look at contemporary sexual chaos. Passion, celibacy, marriage, fidelity are just some of the subjects that Diana Amsterdam hilariously examines." — Tribune News

"Sex jokes. Relationship difficulties. Feminism. Friendship. Love. Marriage. Relationship questions. Family. Fast-paced comedy. More sex jokes. What's not to love?" — The Los Angeles Loyolan

About the Playwright:

Diana Amsterdam is a New York based playwright and screenwriter. She maintains an active practice as script coach, script doctor and dramaturg. Her plays have been produced in New York, London, Berlin, Montreal, Los Angeles and many American cities and been reviewed by the New York Times and Washington Post.