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Some Girl(s): A Play 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Neil LaBute (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
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Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancee is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side—so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, it's probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man's odyssey through four hotel rooms as he flies across the country in search of the perfect woman (that he's already broken up with). Some Girl(s) is the latest work from Neil Labute, American theater's great agent provocateur. In grand LaBute fashion, this by turns outrageously funny and deadly serious portrait of the artist as a young seducer casts a truthful, hilarious light on a typical young American male as he wanders through the heart of darkness that is himself. This edition includes a deleted scene.

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  1. ISBN-13
    978-0571229826
  2. Edition
    1st
  3. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  5. Publication date
    June 27, 2006
  6. Language
    English
  7. File size
    262 KB
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Editorial Reviews

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"The most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today."—David Amsden, New York magazine "[LaBute's] view of modern men and women is unsparing . . . [He] is holding up a pitiless mirror to ourselves. We may not like what we see, but we can't deny that—if only in some dark corner of our souls—it is there."—Jacques le Sourd, The Journal News (White Plains, NY)
"LaBute . . . continues to probe the fascinating dark side of individualism . . . [His] great gift is to live in and to chronicle that murky area of not-knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying."—John Lahr, The New Yorker

About the Author

Neil LaBute is a critically acclaimed playwright, filmmaker, and fiction writer. His most recent works for the stage include This is How it Goes, Fat Pig (winner the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off Broadway Play), Mercy Seat, Autobahn, and The Shape of Things—all available from Faber and Faber.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0057QT4KE
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (June 27, 2006)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 27, 2006
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 262 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 102 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

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Neil Labute

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Neal LaBute's most recent works for the stage include This Is How It Goes (Faber, 2005) and Fat Pig (Faber, 2004), which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off Broadway Play.

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4.6 out of 5 stars
4.6 out of 5
31 global ratings

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andrew/veronica
5.0 out of 5 stars Deep and Meaningful
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2014
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Really insightful play, takes your typical male and shows the worst possible version of him, one that is egotistical and vain, who takes little credit for the wrongs he has inflicted on the female characters. Everyone has met some version of this "guy".
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best book ever!
5.0 out of 5 stars very good, even excellent kindle version
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2015
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I loved the play.... Wow, just wow....
It was very real to life, the characters the dialogue writing explanations it was very confident and real! Lol lots of character study
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Robyn Fleming
4.0 out of 5 stars only one (mabye 2 depending on how you stage it) actually end up Kissing the main character of "Guy" but its a very fun play for
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2016
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i have to say as a male i was very much looking forward to sinking my teeth in to this one, but not for the reasons your thinking, only one (mabye 2 depending on how you stage it) actually end up Kissing the main character of "Guy" but its a very fun play for an "Actor" to play off . having said that the girls we had at out read were all very disgusted with the female characters and were pretty pissed off that "Neil" says he wrote this play to make "Strong Female Characters" when in there opinion hes done the complete opposite
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Emily Chidalek
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2016
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Neil Labute is amazing, need I say more?
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Jamie Gannon
5.0 out of 5 stars 'Some Girls', a play by Neil LaBute
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2010
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Excellent. The play was in pristine condition, it arrived well within the promised time frame, and at a great price. Highly recommend this vendor.
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C. Greeley
5.0 out of 5 stars great play
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2007
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such an entertaining read. Makes me want to suggest that our nearby Theatre Company do a review if it!
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Paige C. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Truth and Consequence
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2006
This is latest addition to LaBute's body of work and one of my favorites to be sure. LaBute's gift for dialogue lends itself perfectly to the awkward banter between exes. The story revolves around a man who wants to apologize to his ex-girlfriends before getting married. While the piece does have a signature LaBute twist the main character of this piece is less abrasive than some of LaBute's other creations. In each of the four vignettes we see the tangled web of relationships, and how we all as humans manipulate each other and our own reality. In each story we can see a piece of ourselves whether we want to admit it or not. It is LaBute's talent for illustrating the truth of the human condition that makes him such a wonderful writer. Two thumbs way up!

A bonus in this addition is a fifth vignette, not performed in London or New York, which rounds out the piece nicely.
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J. Wagner
2.0 out of 5 stars New Labute needs to go back to Old Labute ways.
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2007
It is my belief that Labute has gotten a little big headed in his writing - at the end of this play I was left thinking - who cares? I could care less about these characters and their situation. I call this play Shape of Things 2 because it basically has the same premise - no one is shocked by the end though - and I'm sure audiences and readers are left wondering why they were tricked into watching this play.
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Francesco P.
5.0 out of 5 stars Neil Labute is always nice to read
Reviewed in Germany on December 5, 2023
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Great theatre screenplay. Easy to read, a nice comedy talking about relationships
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