Play
review: Boy Gets Girl
Evan Hamilton, posted Nov. 15, 2006
The play Boy Gets Girl, written by Rebecca Gilman, starts
out with a young woman going out on a blind date with a stranger.
Eventually, this date escalates into a young man with a deadly
obsession. The actors and actresses did a good job overall,
and they really made the play shine. Gilman wrote a good example
of how an obsessive and possessive situation such as this
can play out. At times, it did seem the characters’
lines were written straight from a pamphlet meant to help
women in stalker situations. Sometimes the characters just
seemed out of it.
In the beginning, the protagonist, Theresa, seemed all too
fast to kick her date, Tony, to the curb. Tony was either
at the borderline of a nervous breakdown or just plain stupid.
He just kept messing up. I liked that Theresa was smart enough
to know that Tony did come off as crazy from the moment they
met. I think she made a bad decision. She accepted a blind
date from a friend, who she was not very close too. Surprisingly,
Theresa did not ask for more information about the stranger
she was about to date.
Even though some lines seemed kind of off, other lines were
great. Pamela Judd, who played Theresa, was very believable
in her performance as the play went on. After the intermission,
the play really picked up. Instead of a general focus on one
character, this play includes them all. Each character is
needed to explain the overall meaning of the play, and the
involvement of each character adds a nice touch.
Erin Burton, as Detective Beck, did a great job. This also
goes for Jeremy Goldmeier who played Les Kennkat. His performance
was standout. Everybody did a great job and overall, the play
was very meaningful and deep.
Boy Gets Girl is entertaining, yet covers serious matters
such as a man’s obsession and thoughts of a woman being
his possession, a woman’s role in society and a man’s
outlook of women in general.
