Take a sleepover with five twelve year old girls, fast forward it twenty years later and you've got the feel for Five Women Wearing the Same Dress.

Not to call the play juvenile - it featured cigarettes, pot, coke, and sex in a parking lot (ok, don't get too excited, they only talked about that one), and I wouldn't say it's as stereotypical as a little girls' sleep over, either.

Andrea Runge, who plays Meredith, said the play is comparable to Sex In The City. Each of the characters is different, but they aren't caricatures. It wouldn't be fair to give them titles like 'the rebel' or 'the conservative' because they are very real personalities.

Typically, girls at a sleepover watch a movie from their sleeping bags on the bedroom floor. In the play, the five women watch a ridiculously superficial wedding reception from an upstairs bedroom of Meredith's sister, Tracy. While a sleepover has snacks, like popcorn, for the movie - the women have cigs, pot, and booze to keep them sane during the festivities.

At a sleep over, giggling girls spend part of the night prank calling all the boys. In the play, the bridesmaids pick out men for themselves - one of whom the women all have in common - from the wedding guests.

Most of the cast also starred in the University Residential Theatre Company's production of 'Cloud Nine' this past November. However, while 'Cloud Nine' was esoteric and partly a period piece, 'Five Women' was realistic and modern. The actors all have great chemistry with each other on stage, which shows through both plays.

The comedic timing is great, evoking audible laughter from the audience, including the cracks made about the pink puffy dresses and giant hats the women are forced to wear, pulling the characters together.

The themes are a little darker than what girls at the sleepover might talk about, but they shape the interactions between women just as the topics at a girls' party might do.

I don't know if these women actually made good bridesmaids, but they talked about a lot of issues that women - and men - have in common and can have a good laugh about too.