Guy decides to meet his ex-girlfriends before getting married to sort out past mistakes. How will it end?
Who of us has never imagined to meet again the partners of their sentimental past to find out what was wrong with it? Or to apologize for the mistakes made? In short, to cleanse the conscience and go back to living with less weight on the heart?
That's what he chooses to do Guy, the protagonist of Some Girl (s), brilliant and engaging comedy written by the American playwright Neil LaBute in the 2005 that has achieved an immediate success becoming also an off-Broadway show and a feature film.
Guy is a boy who is getting married and who, before facing this goal, intends to do a journey back in his love life meeting some of his ex girlfriends, to fix "The mess he has combined in his love life along the road to his own maturity". Here is therefore alternating, on the minimalist scene developed by Marcello Cotugno in the theatrical version of Some Girl (s) set up at Little Bellini of Naples with Gabriele Russo in the role of the protagonist, four women all different but united by one characteristic: their heart is still broken by Guy.
From the shy and insecure Sam, her first high school love, to the seductive but fragile Tyler, from the mature but vindictive Lindsay to the emancipated and intelligent Bobbi, her last great love, the "adultescente" protagonist of the LaBute comedy decides to see them again all one last time, crossing the United States and choosing, for each of them, a hotel room that seems to always be the same but which, thanks to a skilful use of lights and scenography, manages to convey the atmosphere to the viewer and the spirit of each meeting.
The audience laughs at the ironic and witty jokes of the characters on stage, at the squabbles and dialogues steeped in humor but also with sarcasm and desire for revenge (especially from the "ex") and ends up recognizing themselves in almost all the sentimental situations that Guy and Sam, Guy and Tyler, Guy and Lindsay, Guy and Bobbi, have crossed and left behind, and in their love skirmishes that still let us glimpse and feel the presence of affection mixed with the desire to "make her pay" to the man-child Guy.
Only at the end will we understand the true nature of Guy, a boy who cannot face adulthood because he is too animated by his ambition to become a famous writer, struck by an absurd and paradoxical vanity that does not allow him to confront sincerely with any of his past loves and that will be therefore condemned to live forever in his dissatisfaction.
A child of our unstable contemporaneity, which we can fully understand but we can not condemn, because it is so believable, in its clumsy uniqueness, to contain a piece of each of us.
Inevitably the comedy "comes out" from the theater and leads the audience to reflect and recognize themselves in Guy, and to witness, stimulated by curiosity, the fourth episode of Some Girl (s) where you will meet Reggie, the fifth woman "absent" from the theater scene but present in an online extra.
Some Girl (s) It will be on stage at the Piccolo Bellini in Naples up to 28 December 2014. For info on timetables and ticket prices see the dedicated article on Napolike.
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