Some Girls
Some Girls
By Neil LaBute
Directed by Paul Castaneda
Greater Orlando Actors Theatre as the Orland Shakespeare Center</strong>
Guy (Corey Volence) exists on a much higher plane of jerkdom than most guys. It’s not that he’s womanized his way through at least a half dozen relations, but when the chips are down he’s the first one out the back door, pants and keys be damned. A mediocre writer, his only small successes came at the expenses of his girlfriend’s shattered egos. That’s why his tour around the country to reconcile with long dead loves is so mysterious – he’s scratching open scabs that everyone else would leave under a pile of sleeping dogs. His first contact was with a high school sweetheart Sam (Jennifer Bonner). You’re willing to cut him a little slack here, not all high school romances are destined to become major chick flicks and what looks good at 18 might not be what you need at 23. Tyler (Renee Wilson) accepts what happened and offer to roll him a joint or roll him on that Embassy Suites king size, but he holds back. Why is he doing this, and why do so many of his girlfriends have masculine names? Lindsay (Leesa Halstead) was married to his boss when they did it, Reggie (Emily Killian) was under age, and he tried for a threesome with Bobbi (Olivia Horn) and her identical twin sister. Why, why, why is he doing this? There’s a reason, and when you catch on, you can see that Guy is truly a world class predator.
“Some Girls” is not for the faint willed – Volence and his harem are so well acted that you’re afraid they may rub off on you. Halstead’s attempted voyeuristic seduction was particularly disturbing, it didn’t end as you thought it would, but it showed that at least some of his conquests were ready, willing and able to extract revenge. Killian’s Reggie was another predator trained by the best. While what he did with her would technically cost you a few years in the slammer today, it might well have slid by a few decades ago and now she wields a powerful lever against him. Bonner and Horn felt the most innocent and the most wronged, but they also seemed to have the least to lose.
LaBute has a reputation for writing nasty male characters, and Volence steps up to the plate and nails this one. See this one with someone you’ve already ditched, that’s the only way either of you will feel better.
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