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Play is the painfully funny love story raising
the complicated question, “What do you do when
true love comes and you’re already in “the
relationship?” Based on the lives of writers
/ actors Robin Greenspan and Lacie Harmon, the story
begins as Robin, who is essentially married to her
girlfriend of a half dozen years and, Lacie, who has
never had a relationship lasting past sunrise, are
cast to play lesbian lovers in a Los Angeles stage
play.
Innocently, the flamboyant stage director, Gabriel
(Dom Deluise) directs the actresses through a series
of rehearsals designed to “ensure intimacy
in performance.” But soon the two women find
themselves increasingly and undeniably attracted
to each other until finally they are overcome with
desire. They must ask themselves whether this relationship
is manufactured, created for the sake of the “girl
play” or, a “true love” requiring
major personal choices and life altering changes.
In an attempt to come to terms with these irresistible
feelings for each other, the two women tell their
stories; flashing back to key moments in their lives,
including: Young Robin realizing secrets are a necessary
part of life, Adult Robin coming out of the closet
to her mother (Mink Stole) after one last lunch
of hearing about all of her unreasonable expectations
of a pending marriage to the perfect son in law
to be and Lacie’s trials and errors in the
dating world along with her ultimate inability to
perform sexually with a girlfriend once the initial
honeymoon timeframe has run out. All of these flashbacks
are intertwined with special moments of hot, lusting
desire for one another during the rehearsals for
the play for which they were cast as each other’s
lovers.
Girl Play incorporates
elements of stage and film, moving back and forth
through time and places to explore through humor
and sometimes-painful self-confession, the neuroses
that accompany major life choices.
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