Boy Gets Girl: A Play (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780571199839)

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.

Author: Rebecca Gilman
ISBN-10: 0571199836
ISBN-13: 9780571199839
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 05/29/2000
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2000 pg. 1516
Library Journal 07/01/2000 pg. 90