Some Girls

Synopsis

Your career is blooming, you are engaged to a fresh-faced young girl, and you are on holiday in Cancun - how do you feel? Well, as an alpha male you're antsy, unsure and sceptical so as an antidote you reunite with the ghosts of ex-girlfriends past all of whom you dumped unceremoniously many years ago! Why? Getting cold feet? Reaffirming your choices? Fear of commitment? Or are you still looking for some girl?

Our Review:

25 May 2005

“Why would I want to be pals with you? Buddies? Especially now…. So, no, I think ‘friends’ is off the list,” a former girlfriend says to the 33-year-old Man being played by David Schwimmer in Some Girls. She is one of four women he’s re-visiting from his troubled romantic past, before he finally gets hitched back in New York to a 22-year-old student nurse.

But Friends is very much on the list for why audiences might flock to see this play, which revolves around the kind of catching up with past flames that another contemporary cultural phenomenon, the website Friends Reunited, has also widely facilitated. For a decade, Schwimmer was, of course, Ross Geller in the hit sitcom.

Now that Friends has ended, Schwimmer is following in the footsteps of fellow cast member Matthew Perry to make his West End debut. Unlike Perry, who was a theatrical virgin when he came to London to star in Sexual Perversity in Chicago ...

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142.35.4.130) - 10 August 2005:

David Schwimmer doesn't get beyond Ross. The play doesn't get beyond "Nurse Betty" and that wasn't La Bute's best work. I went to see this for the Neil La Bute who wrote "Your Friends and Neighbours," but he is only present in flahes....

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