Boy Gets Girl

Synopsis

"If you look at your classic, romantic plotline, it's pretty warped. A guy sees a girl and he falls in love with her. Right there, you're in trouble." Theresa's blind date with Tony seems to go well and she agrees to dinner. She has a successful career in New York, and it is easier for her to commit to work than another person. But when flowers arrive every day and the phone keeps ringing, she doesn't know whether to feel flattered, angry or threatened.

Our Review:

8 November 2001

Not since Blue/Orange, and its penetrating debate about the diagnosis and treatment of a mentally ill man, has a play both excited and disturbed me as much Boy Gets Girl.

This American play - originally seen in Chicago and New York last year and now receiving its British premiere - is the second by Rebecca Gilman to be presented at the Royal Court this year alone. In January, the Theatre Upstairs offered Gilman's Spinning into Butter, an evocative and provocative exploration of racism on an American university campus.

The theatre's advocacy of someone who is clearly turning out to be a major new playwriting voice proves not to be misplaced. Now graduating to the mainhouse Theatre Downstairs, Gilman's Boy Gets Girl belies the suggestion of its title that it will be a light romantic comedy to offer a far more aggressive, darkly disturbing portrait of a Manhattan career woman, Theresa Bedell, who becomes the victim of a...

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Latest User Review

USER: Whatsonstage.com - 15 December 2001:

Brilliant, perfectly balanced play that grips you from start to finish. Beautiful, fluid direction and outstanding performances from all the cast. You gotta see it. Presumably it's going to move into the West End?...

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