About the Play:

Some Girl(s) has become a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues, Male Monologues, and Female/Male Scenes.

Some Girl(s) is a full-length drama by Neil LaBute. One guy, four exes, four cities … it's one roller coaster of a trip. A man about to get married visits four women from his past who he thinks he "wronged" looking for closure. Will it work? Probably not, but there's still hope. By turns humorous, serious and truthful, Some Girl(s) compels the audience with a simple and honest portrayal of the minefield of romantic relationships and the role they play in our emotional development.

Some Girl(s) takes an unflinching look at love in an age when a heart-to-heart with a friend can end up splattered across Facebook or a flippant comment Twittered to the globe. Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancée is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side, so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, it's probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man's odyssey through four hotel rooms as he flies across the United States in search of the perfect woman (that he's already broken up with). In grand Neil LaBute fashion, this by turns outrageously funny and deadly serious portrait of the artist as a young seducer casts a truthful, hilarious light on a typical young American male as he wanders through the heart of darkness that is himself. Some Girl(s) is dually instructive to both men and women: he will find it a handy field manual in 'how-to', she will find it a horror story bathed in truth. This edition includes a deleted scene.

Some Girl(s) premiered in 2005 at the Gielgud Theatre in the commercial heart of British theatre, the West End of London. The US premier was in 2006 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre off-Broadway in New York City. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and is regularly performed in regional, college, and community theatres.

Cast: 3 female, 2 male

What people say:

"The most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today." — New York Magazine

"Some Girl(s) is undoubtedly funny at times, and LaBute analyses the sexual relationships with a searching accuracy that might be described as wise. But gentle? Never. This is a play where the gloves keep coming off and characters inflict real damage on each other." — The Journal News (White Plains, NY)

"[LaBute's] view of modern men and women is unsparing ... [He] is holding up a pitiless mirror to ourselves. We may not like what we see, but we can't deny that — if only in some dark corner of our souls — it is there?" — The Daily Telegraph (UK)

"LaBute ... continues to probe the fascinating dark side of individualism . . . [His] great gift is to live in and to chronicle that murky area of not-knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying." — The New Yorker

About the Playwright:

Neil LaBute is an award-winning American playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter. His plays include bash, Reasons to be Pretty (Tony Award nominated for best play), In a Forest, Dark and Deep, and Reasons to be Happy. His films include In the Company of Men (New York Critics' Circle Award for Best First Feature and the Filmmaker Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession, The Shape of Things, Some Velvet Morning, and Dirty Weekend. He is a 2013 recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.