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Some Girl(s): A Play

Some Girl(s): A Play

by NeilLaBute (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancee 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). By turns humorous and serious, this 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. 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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 114
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: FSG Adult
Published: 19 May 2005
ISBN 10: 0571229824
ISBN 13: 9780571229826

Media Reviews
The most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today. --David Amsden, New York magazine [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. --Jacques le Sourd, The Journal News (White Plains, NY)
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. --John Lahr, The New Yorker

The most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today. David Amsden, New York magazine

[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. Jacques le Sourd, The Journal News (White Plains, NY)

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. John Lahr, The New Yorker


The most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today. David Amsden, New York magazine

[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. Jacques le Sourd, The Journal News (White Plains, NY)

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. John Lahr, The New Yorker


The most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today. --David Amsden, New York magazine

[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. --Jacques le Sourd, The Journal News (White Plains, NY)

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. --John Lahr, The New Yorker

Author Bio
Neil LaBute received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the Royal Court Theatre, London. He also attended the Sundance Institute's Playwrights Lab and is the Playwright-in- Residence with MCC Theatre in New York City. LaBute's plays include: bash: latter-day plays, The Shape of Things, The Mercy Seat, The Distance From Here, Autobahn, Fat Pig (Olivier Award nominated for Best Comedy), Some Girl(s), This Is How It Goes, Wrecks, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, In a Dark Dark House, Reasons to Be Pretty (Tony Award nominated for Best Play) and The Break of Noon. In the spring of 2011 his play In a Forest, Dark and Deep premiered in London's West End. LaBute is also the author of Seconds of Pleasure, a collection of short fiction which was published by Grove Atlantic. 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, a film adaptation of his play of the same title, The Wicker Man, Lakeview Terrace and Death at a Funeral.