Boy Gets Girl - A Play Review
Boy Gets Girl - A Play Review
Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gillman
Overview
The overall feeling I'm left with from the story of "Boy Gets Girl" is the a take on the war of the
sexes crossed with an "it can't happen to me." For it's time, I'm guessing late 80's , it was
probably very cutting edge. I feel that the given cast gave an honest performance and worked
diligently with what they had. Multiple technical difficulties did make it hard to completely buy
into the situation - such as a poorly fitting set which left gaping sides, allowing the audience a
clear view of the crew setting up backstage. The acting even make's it mostly forgivable when
the story plows into a brick wall after nearly two hours, and just stops rather than ends.
Plot
Boy Gets Girl traces the destruction of a successful woman's life when she encounters an
obsessive stranger. Theresa, a writer for a hot magazine in New York whose life is pretty much
together, despite her former beau's departure for an exotic job halfway around the world. Theresa
goes on a blind date to get back in the social swing. But the signals aren't good and she cuts it
off, tastefully, before things can get personal. But Tony doesn't see it that way. He sends flowers,
tries to bridge a misunderstanding. He calls, gets persistent, then ardent, then abusive in a blink,
and threatening. Theresa's office staff gets sucked into the vortex, and her boss winds up with
some fears of his own. Providing a contrast to the nerve-wracking action is Les Kennkat, a movie
director who specializes in soft-core porn, the subject of a magazine article Theresa is supposed
to write. The assignment is a quiet conceit that allows the playwright to deal indirectly with the
sexual issues underlying the plot about the victim and her predator. It's also...
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