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Boy Gets Girl

A Play

Author: Rebecca Gilman

Boy Gets Girl

Boy Gets Girl

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About This Book

What is a stalker? And what kind of life can a woman lead when she knows she is being followed, obsessively and perhaps dangerously, by one?

This is the dilemma facing...

Page Count
128
On Sale
05/29/2000

Book Details

What is a stalker? And what kind of life can a woman lead when she knows she is being followed, obsessively and perhaps dangerously, by one?

This is the dilemma facing Theresa Bedell, a reporter in New York, in Rebecca Gilman's tensely fascinating new play. When Theresa goes on an awkward blind date with a friend of a friend, she sees no reason to continue the relationship--but the man, an attractive fellow named Tony, thinks otherwise. While Theresa is at first annoyed yet flattered by his continuing attention, her attitude gradually changes to one of fear and fury when he starts violently to menace her and those around her.

In brilliantly delineating the kind of terror a woman in full control of her life feels when everything around her suddenly seems to be a threat, Gilman probes the dark side of relationships in the 1990s with the rich insight and compelling characterizations that have distinguished her earlier plays and made her one of the most exciting young playwrights working today.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780571199839

In The News

“One of the finest, most disturbing American plays in years.” —Richard Zoglin, Time

“[A] provocative, unsettling play, further proof of Gilman's ability to shake up a theater audience with the power of her ideas--and words.” —Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune

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Boy Gets Girl

Boy Gets Girl

$21.00