Page Girls

So were born Esther, Jane and Ivy. “About 40 percent me,” she says of these women of the smart and überdemanding generation; each has a million rules and annoyances.

Are her characters merely the latest in the line of Bridget Joneses and Ann Maries? “I think my characters are three distinct types of people, and we all have a little slice of each of them,” says Faye. “I get 60-year-old people coming up to me after the show and telling me how much they related to it. I didn’t want this to be a one-liner fest. It’s your most inner thoughts — that’s my concept. Your journal is about your highlights and lowlights. There’s no filler. You don’t write, ‘Today was good. I had a hamburger and la dee da.’ It’s more about invisible midgets under your skirt and ‘I don’t want my mom to die.’”

One thing that sets Pagesapart from other fretting yuppie-fests is Faye comes out of formal theater training; it would be unfair to accuse her of intending the playto function as her gimme-a-sitcom-now showcase. For one thing, she uses too many Thespian expressions like “back to the front” and insists that it will always be the play first. However, Hollywood has definitely come calling. Movie people want her for script rewrites and features; TV suits want her for sitcoms. There is even talk that Ivy, Jane and Esther would be great on episodic television. Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, Chloë Sevigny and Jennifer Love Hewitt have “expressed interest” (translation: They’ve sent representatives to see the show). “Everything’s in the meeting stages, but it’s a good time. All of a sudden I have options, and I’m not begging people to hear me.”

But easy there, Ms. Barrymore. “If I can find someone who can do it better, I’d be more than willing to step aside. It’s not something you can just plug somebody into. It’s a very delicate dynamic between the three girls,” she says upon learning of the inquiring A-listers. “If Angelina Jolie wants to play Ivy, that’s fine, but I’ve got to see her audition.”

Pages of My Diary I’d Rather Not Read is being performed at the Hudson Backstage, 1110 N. Hudson Ave., Hollywood; Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.; through April 15; then at the Lillian Theater, 1076 Lillian Way, Hollywood; Sat.-Sun., 2 p.m.; thru April 29. (323) 930-9304.