Someone for Everyone: too much pathos as playwright G.A.D. Caplan carries us through the intiation of a nice young man trying to find a nice girl.
This play comes to the conclusion that maybe there isn’t “Someone for Everyone”, something we discover after a series of sketches that carry us though the “case” of Steven Greenberg. This nice Jewish boy from Montreal is desperately trying to find a nice girl who is willing to have sex with him because she finds him physically attractive, and not because she wants to be “nice’ to him. But, girls only want to be his friend, and he is fed up, frustrated and even quite desperate. Narrated by his alter ego, who speaks to audience members as though we were the omniscient house shrink, in pure Woody Allan style, the story of Steven has moments of clever humour, (like the meeting in the confressional with Steven caught between a Priest and a Rabbi. or that encounter in the Jewish Dating service, or some of the scenes in first year university where Steven meets Girls! ). Some of the scenes do becomes repetitive, some even drag out the pathos a bit too much .