Some Girl(s) Opens at Laredo Little Theater
By: Freddy Gonzalez
Issue date: 12/11/09 Section: Entertainment
The lights inside the Laredo Little Theater burned bright on opening night for the Karol Batey directed play, Some Girl(s). Five celebrated actors brought the Neil N. Labute play to life and left this reporter on the edge of his seat.
The play focuses around a man known to the audience as "Guy", who is getting older in age and is on the verge of getting married. Guy is portrayed by Rene Mendez. In the play Mendez decides to visit former girlfriends in different hotel rooms whom he suspects he might have wronged in the past.
Rosalinda Reyes plays the high school sweetheart in Seattle who was left just before prom night. You can feel the tension as Reyes takes a chair while Mendez sits on the bed to converse. The tension in this scene was at an all time high with both characters walking around not knowing what to do about the elephant of a problem in the room. Reyes then radiates hatred for her past love and eventually gets physical as she slaps "Guy" and runs out of the hotel room.
The next scene has Guy with a free spirited sexual plaything portrayed by Stephanie Ibarra. Ibarra plays the happy go lucky woman that is up for no strings attached fun in Chicago.. The scene gets very intimate as they both kiss and almost engage in acts that would be frowned upon by "Guy's" fiancé. Ibarra portrays the temptations that still linger in Guy as they roll around a bed and push the bounds of his monogamy.
The third scene according to this reporter was the most intense of the play as Lexie DeAnda plays an older, fire-and-ice professor in Boston. This scene was one of the highlights of the play as you see the character verbally assault "Guy" for his indiscretions. The theater was silent as the words of DeAnda's character traveled around at a volume level that would scare any man in the world. The scene ends like no other with DeAnda tricking Guy into believing that their intimacy will rekindle one more time, and just like Guy had done to her years before DeAnda walks out on him.
The play focuses around a man known to the audience as "Guy", who is getting older in age and is on the verge of getting married. Guy is portrayed by Rene Mendez. In the play Mendez decides to visit former girlfriends in different hotel rooms whom he suspects he might have wronged in the past.
Rosalinda Reyes plays the high school sweetheart in Seattle who was left just before prom night. You can feel the tension as Reyes takes a chair while Mendez sits on the bed to converse. The tension in this scene was at an all time high with both characters walking around not knowing what to do about the elephant of a problem in the room. Reyes then radiates hatred for her past love and eventually gets physical as she slaps "Guy" and runs out of the hotel room.
The next scene has Guy with a free spirited sexual plaything portrayed by Stephanie Ibarra. Ibarra plays the happy go lucky woman that is up for no strings attached fun in Chicago.. The scene gets very intimate as they both kiss and almost engage in acts that would be frowned upon by "Guy's" fiancé. Ibarra portrays the temptations that still linger in Guy as they roll around a bed and push the bounds of his monogamy.
The third scene according to this reporter was the most intense of the play as Lexie DeAnda plays an older, fire-and-ice professor in Boston. This scene was one of the highlights of the play as you see the character verbally assault "Guy" for his indiscretions. The theater was silent as the words of DeAnda's character traveled around at a volume level that would scare any man in the world. The scene ends like no other with DeAnda tricking Guy into believing that their intimacy will rekindle one more time, and just like Guy had done to her years before DeAnda walks out on him.
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