‘70s rock music fades and lights are up on an American hotel room with an anxious, thirty-something man fidgeting on a bed at center. Slowly but surely one female after the next enters this evolving bedroom, guiding the audience through a string of his unsuccessful relationships. Ranging from a loving mother to a married professor, they are just some girls that “Guy,” on the verge of finally getting married, has and will continue to screw over. Ironically referred to as a “Romance,” Neil LaBute’s “Some Girl(s),” currently performing at the Geffen Playhouse, offers theater-goers a light and sardonic, ultimately satisfying production. With a plot surrounding one selfish man’s desire to “write his wrongs,” it comes as no surprise that by the end, every woman in the audience is nodding their head back-and-forth in utter disgust. While “Some Girl(s)” can easily be deemed the archetypal soap opera, it is the well-written, natural flow of dialogue and memorable one-liners that make this play more than meets the eye. Overall, LaBute successfully brings silver screen quality to a live theater setting. A crossover writer of two mediums, both film and theater, he allows his audience to sit back and comfortably watch as distant voyeurs, but also draws them in through the emotional rich characters he directs in this particular production. Using one slightly changing hotel room, “Some Girl(s)” weaves a series of connecting two-person scenes together to gradually expose the character of Guy. In an effort of LaBute’s to “write some good roles for women,” whether manipulating or unintentionally tormenting, Guy is represented as a hyperbolic and overly sadistic “typical male.” Despite the fact that I cannot recall him ever playing such an evil character (I immediately reference him in his brief and unfulfilling fling with Miranda on “Sex and the City” or his role as the sweet Jewish hubby-to-be in “In Her Shoes”), Mark Feuerstein as Guy makes a surprisingly convincing prick with a pathologically innocent exterior. The four “pivotal people” whose relationships “come back up like vomit” for Guy are Sam (Paula Cale Lisbe), the sweet Seattle housewife and Guy’s high school sweetheart; Lindsay (Rosalind Chao), the confident and successful Boston professor and Guy’s older affair; and Tyler (Justina Machado), the free spirit, real life Chicago native, as well as Guy’s rebound after Los Angeles-based blonde bombshell Bobbi (Jaime Ray Newman), the girl that got away. All four actresses possess a large spectrum of both film and television credits, imbuing their characters with real and relatable elements, as well as showing off their surprisingly hot bods, as is the case with Chao (as her husband watches from outside the hotel bedroom window in a car). It is these female characters that allow Guy to grow into a much deeper character than the asshole he obviously is. Throughout the course of four somewhat repetitive 20 minute vignettes, each female figure shimmers with shear confidence and determination. Guy may have cheated or ran away from their relationships in the past, but they refuse to allow this “emotional terrorist” to prevail again, and since he apparently continues to repeat his mistakes, Guy will unfortunately never learn. Ultimately, if you are tired of the depressing movies out right now and you want a taste of live theater, “Some Girl(s)” will do the job right. It will embitter confident women and relate to invincible men, and leave everyone else feeling fulfilled, at least for the meantime. By Danielle Jacoby Photo Credit: Michael Lamont