Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s) at the Geffen Playhouse
Geffen Playhouse - Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater (10886 Le Conte Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024)
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The last date listed for Some Girl(s) was Sunday March 2, 2008 / 7:30pm.
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Sandy on Where to Eat
The courtyard at the Geffen is a beautiful place to have a glass of wine before the show.
43 Goldstar Member Reviews
Sandy
I loved this show, my favorite so far of the LaBute plays I've seen. As usual, there's a male protagonist with morally/ethically suspect behavior. In this case, I found the protagonist's struggle even more interesting than usual, since I relate to his conflict as a writer wanting to use his real life stories in his writing, but in doing so, revealing personal information about people who have shared his life with him. He crosses the line in disturbing ways, and the women he hurts in the process are really engaging characters. It was also fun to have LaBute himself sitting in the audience directly behind me, taking notes on the performance.Written on Feb 04 2008
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Deborah A.
Definitely worth seeing. All seats are excellent. Small, intimate theater. Some Girls is witty and well-written. The four women play four distinctive characters extremely well. The lead gentleman did a fine job; however his performance was a bit over-acted.Written on Feb 06 2008
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David Kamm
The theatre was perfectly-sized (smaller than the regular Geffen), so all seats are great, and the acting was first-rate. Of course, if I were "making amends" to all my old flames prior to getting married, I'm not sure that I would ask them to meet me in a hotel room...Written on Feb 04 2008
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Sebastian
The show started at 7:30pm on a Friday night, which is awful, because traffic getting to the Geffen is INSANE. I was five minutes late, and wasn't let into the theatre until the set change, so I missed the first 20 minutes, which was very disappointing. This should have started at 8pm. I don't know why the start time was so early on a workday.Written on Feb 15 2008
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Description
Written By Neil LaBute
Directed By Neil LaBute
Seattle. Chicago. Boston. Los Angeles. Not battlegrounds that you may recognize from history but watch the painful laughter flow when a writer returns to the scene of four crimes of the heart. Before getting married, 'Guy' decides to make amends with some girls he left behind. Or does he?
Some Girl(s) is a searing, funny portrait of the artist as a young cad.
About Neil LaBute
Neil LaBute studied theater at Brigham Young University (BYU) where he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At BYU, he produced a number of plays that pushed the envelope of what was allowable at the strait-laced Latter-day Saint university, some of which were immediately shut down after their premieres. LaBute also did graduate work at the University of Kansas, New York University, and the Royal Academy of London.
In 1993, he returned to BYU to premier his play In the Company of Men, for which he received an award from the Association for Mormon Letters. The film version eventually won the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival, major awards or nominations at the Deauville Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, the Thessaloniki Film Festival, as well as from the Society of Texas Film Critics Awards and the New York Film Critics Circle.
His next film, Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), with an ensemble cast including Eckhart and Ben Stiller, was a shockingly honest portrayal of the sex lives of three suburban couples who were friends. In 2000, he wrote and directed an off-Broadway play entitled Bash: Latter-Day Plays, a set of three short plays depicting essentially good people (who happen to be Latter-day Saints) doing disturbing and violent things.
LaBute's 2002 play, The Mercy Seat, was one of the first major theatrical responses to the September 11, 2001 attacks. Starring Liev Schreiber and Sigourney Weaver, the play was a considerable commercial and critical success, in large part because of its willingness to confront the myths that many New Yorkers had constructed in order to console themselves after the attacks.