there are no good man because there are no good women by lovely playwright laurie my name is debbie angelo and i play the character of renee hello my name is kim people are and i play the role of to resign and there are no good men because there are no good women hi my name is mary bria i play grace in the play there are no good men because there are no good women my name is lamar barnes play robert in the play there are no good men because there are no good women  derived from the book by the same name by the fabulous laurie harvey hi there i'm tanya alina johnson i play the character of becky and there are no good men because there are no good women play based on the book by the playwright lori hardy hi everybody i am in the play with my sister helping her as an assistant and the name of the play is there are no good men because there are no good women people come and see this play because it's going to provoke thought it is a play that well written and it's about relationships with men and women there's so much dialogue going on nowadays about relationships everybody has a radio station talking about relationships from steve harvey to if you listen to be one of three every day you can hear them talking about relationships so this is something that you can come and see that will provoke thought in maybe something that's going on in your life as well as something that's going on in the life of a person that you know this plays important because i think it touches on a lot of situations that people are dealing with today that sometimes they're not aware of and i'm trying to make women's specially women aware of what they're doing because these men to be no good so i would think that you know they will get the message that i'm trying to give out and understanding so they can have more successful and happy relationships people should definitely come see this play because it's something that you will definitely be able to relate to as many of us have said it's it's really an exploration of the human dynamic and how we as people interact with each other whether we're exclusively with one another or not definitely something  if you are in a friendship a very close friendship you can see you can definitely relate to what's going on on stage in terms of different characters and their relationships with one another there are characters here that you may relate to either within yourself or you may know someone like you as it is about relationships and everybody has one and i think every character type that anybody would know is presented  situations relation that people can identify with bill of a slum of civil across you'll enjoy it we want you to come on just enjoy the experience with us and women will learn how to understand me a little better with their conversation man you will learn a little bit more about us within our conversation that my character she has i would say are actually all the characters in this play have dynamic situations and scenarios going on my character sort of timid and she's in a long term relationship with with the boyfriend she's living with who happens to be very abusive and she's trying to deal with how how to relate to this situation while she has kids and after years and years of being with his boyfriend she sort of stays in the situation and with her group of lovely friends all happen to have interesting character situations or relationships i'll try to find a solution and sort of like the light at the end of the time no what i think or what i would like to see people take away from it is maybe being smarter about their own relationships if they have something going on in their life that they feel is not working for them to have the courage to get out of that situation and to pick somebody or to look for somebody who will actually make them happy instead of making them miserable and i think you would take away from this play when people show you who they are you believe them so what you would take from me is a mess of learning you would learn all relationships are not good there are some good ones there are some bad ones but there are work this story originated from my own personal experience when i got divorced i started dating again and i realized that there were a lot of guys out there who you know mainly weren't ready for a relationship and a lot of were complaining about women about the same things and then when i would talk to the women they would complain about them in the same things so i decided you know you know a lot of these women are complaining about these men but they're accepting their bad behavior so i decided to write a book because i don't think a lot of women know that you know they try to be i try to be controlling too clingy and it's like you know you have to realize the things that you are doing wrong because i don't think a lot of women listen to min they just you know just want to be in a relationship what i want people to learn as a result of this play is that you can be happy but people only do to you what you allow them to do to you if you don't take crap they won't give it out men only try what they can get away with so if you don't let them in get away with this they won't try to have some standards have some pride about yourself don't be too clingy don't have low self esteem there are there is somebody out there for you don't be something that you that don't change for somebody and don't try to change somebody else just be yourself be happy with who you are and then has some standards and make the man abide by them i've been writing plays for a long time i can remember i had this is my first production outside you know my church has a church girl and i wrote a lot of plays for church but a lot of times you know least for me you feel confined what you can write about and i can't i feel like this play wasn't a church play it was parson plays a woman's place a man's play it's something they everybody needed to understand and it's about relationships that adult relationships that people need to know about their kids really don't need to be a part of and so i want to expand expand my you know horizons by doing a play outside the church and something that you know as near and dear to my heart relationships are near and dear to my heart ok tell you about some of the characters in this play the one that i kind of like resonate with is julissa because i was her she's kind of like the busybody t know it all you know the one who gives it to you direct and i was a very kind with my delivery you know because i have very little tolerance for certain things i didn't like for women to be you know abuse that in life for women to let men take advantage of them so when they would tell me about this situation i was a very sympathetic because they it's like you should know better why you let him do this to you let me see becky is another one that i kind of like like because she is the one who was in the good girl all time which you know she she preaches that holiness and wants you to do the right thing and she's she throws her religion up in your face and what you know gats is itself like that and she's not very balance well balanced because she i mean you know she loves the lord she she doesn't look at things realistically all the time the guy s jamaah typical playboy typical guy that most women fall for and you know he's a pretty guy and they'll do anything by stuff they you know know he has other women but they want to be with him just because who we is and what he looks like you're a typical married guy that always cheat because his wife is not do what he wanted to do so that's a dime a dozen and the pastor robert he there's a lot of pastors nowadays that are having extramarital affairs causing the church to go down and they're dealing with everyday women they're dealing with women their congregation and i think those the subjects that we need to talk about and discuss what things that i discuss in the play that i wasn't able to cover in a book enough that i probably put more in the book than i did in the play because in the book i discuss about relationships with finance relationship with your kids relationship with blended families you know discuss those type of things you know low self esteem i mean even though some of the women in the play have low self esteem you know there's a lot of things in the book that i've discussed about that i didn't discuss in the play but that was just time to say what is my ministry my ministry is to educate women i am a strong advocate for women i do not like to see women be taken advantage of a lot of times when women are being taken advantage of it's their own fault and it's no i mean even though the guys wrong and he dogs them out like i said before he would be able to do that if you would allow him to and it's like i don't know that everybody wants to be loved and sometimes we take that wanting to be loved to the extreme and we get blinded and we don't realize what is right in front of us what is the problem why is he doing this to me when he's only doing it to you because you allow him to so i would definitely want women to just just be strong take your power back be don't be aggressive you have to be controlling just be who you love who you are be yourself and just have some standards and just don't allow men to take advantage of you if i wasn't a playwright i would be i don't know i this is what i want to do i can't think of anything else i want to do and i always say that you should do your passion i can't think of anything right now that i want to be on the type of person who likes the limelight you know i'm the behind the scenes person you know but my other passion just helping people i just like to help people i just like to you know to assist people and help them grow and in the process i grow as well my website is empowerment for like the number four for life dot com one thing people do not know about me is that i've changed like i said i used to be a very direct person and i'm working three o'clock what advice i would give to up and coming playwrights follow your passion do what right what's important to you right which you feel right which you know right what that what gets you going what you care about what you're passionate about you comes across when you write about what you really really really care about if you just want to write something that you think is going to be a million dollar hit and you don't do any research anything i don't think that you know those are two successful i think your passion should come across with your words a taste of theater where everyone is a star including you so many hopes and dreams for many dreams and seen them swept aside whether earned away by a fire scared away back something has to change if not for herself