Rebecca Gilman - Boy gets girl: a play

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Boy gets girl: a play
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Rebecca Gilman
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2011
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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 Gilmans 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 relationshipbut 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...

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A table in a bar, two chairs . TONY sits alone, a little nervous, waiting for someone. He is an attractive man in his thirties. He is drinking a beer . THERESA enters, a bit hesitant. She carries a big bag, looks a little flustered. They stare at each other for a second.

THERESA Tony?

TONY Theresa? (They laugh awkwardly.) Hi. (He rises , offers his hand, she shakes it.)

THERESA Im sorry Im late.

TONY Its okay.

THERESA No, I just I didnt want you to be sitting here thinking I wasnt going to come. I mean, I wouldnt do that. I tried to call but I cant get my phone to work. They gave me this new phone (She pulls a cellular phone out of her bag.) And I dont know. The display thing comes on but then I cant get a dial tone. (She pushes a button , listens, holds it out to TONY.) Do you know anything about these?

TONY No. (Takes it, listens.) I dont think its working.

THERESA Anyway, Im really sorry.

TONY Its okay, really.

THERESA Well, anyway. Hi.

TONY Hi. (Beat.) Do you want to sit down?

THERESA Yeah. I think, though, I might get a beer.

TONY Let me get you one.

THERESA No. Its okay.

TONY Let me get you one. What would you like?

THERESA Whatever. Just nothing dark.

TONY Do you want a Weiss beer?

THERESA Is that the big tall one?

TONY Yeah.

THERESA I dont think so. Just an, you know, an ale or something. (He starts off.) Let me give you some money.

TONY No, you can get the next one. Okay?

THERESA Okay. (He exits. She sits. The phone rings. She quickly answers it.) What? Oh, hey. Dont call me on the phone (She looks to where TONY exited .) I lied, I said it was broken and I couldnt call. I was late. (Beat.) Well, I was thinking I wouldnt come. I was just sort of walking around. (Beat.) Look, I came, Im here, so dont, you know, get all whatever. (Beat.) Hes fine, I guess. Ive been here two minutes. (Beat.) Ive been here two minutes and I dont know. All right? (Beat.) Okay, you know what? Im hanging up now. (Beat.) Ill call you tonight. (Beat.) Im pretty sure Ill be home in time to call you. (Beat.) No, hes fine. Im not saying that. (TONY enters with a beer, gives her a slightly puzzled look. Shes been watching, knows hes coming. She makes a motion to him for one more second.) Im going now. Goodbye. ( Moving the phone away ) Goodbye. ( She looks for a button, hangs up. To TONY) That was Linda.

TONY Really?

THERESA ( Looking at the phone ) I guess people can call in, but I cant call out.

TONY What did she want?

THERESA She wanted to know how it was going.

TONY You just got here.

THERESA Thats what I told her.

TONY Oh. (Small beat.) I got you an India Pale Ale. Is that okay?

THERESA Thats great, thanks. It used to be a lot easier when everybody just drank Miller High Life.

TONY I never had Miller High Life.

THERESA Well, if you had been living the high life you would have. (Beat.) I mean , its the champagne of beers.

(Beat.)

TONY Maybe I should try it.

THERESA No. Im sorry. You know, I have kind of a dumb sense of humor. Im usually not serious when I say stupid things like that.

TONY Oh.

THERESA I mean, its obviously not very funny either, so dont feel bad.

TONY No, I mean Im sorry, too. I guess Im a little nervous.

THERESA Me, too.

TONY Really?

THERESA Yes.

TONY Oh, good. I mean, not good youre nervous, but good Im not alone.

THERESA I understand.

TONY Ive never actually been on a blind date before.

THERESA Really?

TONY Have you?

THERESA Tons. Nobody who actually knows me will go out with me. (Beat.) That was a joke.

TONY (Laughs.) Sorry.

THERESA Ill just stop trying. No, actually, I had a blind date in high school once, when I was a junior. I was supposed to meet this guy from another school at a party and when I did, he asked me if I wanted to go out to his van and fool around and I said I had to go to the bathroom and left with some friends. (Beat.) I guess I probably shouldnt tell you that, on your first blind date, how I just ditched some guy.

TONY I think its good you ditched him. I mean, anybody with a van.

THERESA (Smiles.) Exactly. Whatd you drive in high school?

TONY A Dodge Dart.

THERESA Cool. I drove a Chrysler Cordoba.

TONY With fine Corinthian leather.

THERESA Exactly.

(Small beat.)

TONY So you know Linda from work?

THERESA I do. Before she quit to go off and have babies and everything, she was my research assistant.

TONY You know, I have to make a confession: Ive never read your magazine.

THERESA Well, first of all, its not my magazine, and second of all, dont worry about it.

TONY What sort of stuff do you write?

THERESA All sorts, really.

TONY Do you get to pick? I mean, what you write about?

THERESA Usually. A couple of weeks ago I did a story about Edith Whartons upstate estate. (Small beat.) That was kind of hard to say. Upstate estate.

TONY I dont I dont know who she is.

THERESA Oh, shes a writer. Shes dead, first of all. But she was a New York writer from the turn of the century.

TONY Is she really famous?

THERESA I guess her most famous book is Age of Innocence?

TONY Oh, with Winona Ryder?

THERESA Exactly. So, that was interesting. But then, I do get assignments still and its usually something annoying. Like, on Thursday, I have to go interview Les Kennkat.

TONY The filmmaker?

THERESA I think film is a generous term.

TONY I thought he was dead.

THERESA So did I, actually. (They laugh.) So you met Linda through her sister?

TONY Right. I met Sarah at Michigan.

THERESA Right.

TONY And when I moved here, you know, I looked up everybody I even vaguely knew because I was terrifiedthis is the first big city I ever lived in

THERESA Where are you from?

TONY Terre Haute?

THERESA The home of Eugene Debs.

TONY Yeah.

THERESA And Theodore Dreiser and Paul Dresser.

TONY I guess so.

THERESA On the banks of the Wabash.

TONY It is. Have you been there?

THERESA No.

TONY Oh. Well, anyway, I looked up Sarah, and then, my first Thanksgiving here, she took pity on me and took me along to Lindas for turkey. Then, I guess you know, Sarah moved to Boston last spring. But thats how I met Linda. But I have to be honest, I dont know Linda well. I mean, I hardly ever see her.

THERESA I dont know her well either and I see her all the time.

TONY Oh. Is she I mean, do you not get along?

THERESA No, we get along fine. She just shes certain she knows how I should live my life and shes always telling me what to do next.

TONY Like, maybe, go on a date with me.

THERESA Like, maybe that, but thats okay.

TONY Good.

(Beat.)

THERESA How long have you lived here?

TONY Four years.

THERESA Do you like it?

TONY I do now. I really hated it at first. I just thought everybody was so mean and its so dirty here.

THERESA I know.

TONY But after a while it started to grow on me, and now, I mean, this might sound weird, but part of what I like about it now is how big it is. I like being able to just blend in. There are so many people, I just feel anonymous. I dont know what that says about me

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