Overview

A precursor to Sex and the City, this fast-paced comedy is also a buddy story about two single women in the city, in the late eighties, when the sexual revolution hit a definite snag. Lucy Lewis loves men, being single, and playing the field; she is a successful career woman and a "fast girl." Her neighbor Abigail McBride seeks a suitable husband and, in her mid-thirties, is definitely desperate, declaring that she realized, too late, that "high standards and loneliness are one and the same thing." Lucy's mother Mitzi comes to town. Her goal: to convince Lucy that she has GOT to settle down before it's too late, and she sends over Lucy's ex-boyfriend Sidney to seal the deal. In one of the funniest second acts in theater history, Lucy pretends to cook for Sidney and be a "good girl" to show him how ridiculous it is; but the charade backfires. Meanwhile, her boytoy-of-the-minute keeps turning up, never suspecting the hornet's nest he is strolling into.Fast Girls has been produced all over the world, translated into several languages, and won the Montreal eqivalent of a Tony Award (in French). A proven crowd-pleaser, older audiences adore the character of the mother, Mitzi; single women in their twenties and thirties dramatically bond with Lucy and Abigail.

Keywords

• Feminism
• Friendship
• Love
• Marriage