She isn't one, OK, she's not. May 22, 2022. When someone looks or acts different from their level of standards, they're quick to judge and criticize. Swear I fucking willI don't care if I'm late going in or not. / Hawthorne. I mean, I can take a lot, pretty much, anyway, but I'm, like, my face? GREG and KENT sitting around the break room of their workplace. D'Konversatioun schwtzt fir d'Nostalgie fir hir gutt Zesummeliewen zesummen, di dann an d'vertraute . Et gouf nominiert fir dri Tony Awards (Best Play, Best Leading Actress, a Bescht Leading Actor). We can't eat lunch and kiss each other and start blabbing on the phone next week We're done, Greg. Nodeems hien probiert huet him ze schmecken, huet Carly him dann eng wichteg Fro iwwert Kent. Do not walk out of here when we're fighting or I swear to God I'll I will murder your fish when you're gone. ", Read the full review, Listen, You Brat, to Plain Truths About the Beauty Myth, Read the full review, Neil Labutes Pretty probes our ugly obsession with beauty. But theres compassion and even tenderness running through this play that make it one of his best..", "Playwright/provocateur Neil LaBute has explored our obsession with physical appearance and the way it wreaks havoc on relationships in such works as "Fat Pig" and "The Shape of Things." I'm serious. Bye.GREG turns off his cell and waits. Tried to wait but, you know. "Reasons To Be Pretty", is the play chosen for the director's analysis essay. A stupid thing, I know, I agree with that, but it's STEPH Yeah. Oh, I see (Beat.) Show dates: June 20-23, 27-29, 2013. Hon misstnker att Kent fuskar p henne. STEPH angrilypiles her hair into a makeshift bun-type thing.GREG Man, this is you're talking nuts now. ", "It takes a tender man to make plays as tough as Neil LaButes. ", Read the full "Reasons To Be Pretty" review, First You Shut Up, Then You Grow Up. Door to the kitchen was open. How gay is that?GREG Very. That new girl, up in the shipping department. You want me to meet you or No, fine. August 11, 2014 10:48am. He prefers to focus on the company softball team. / Sit down.GREG Thanks. Neil LaBute's bristling new comic drama puts the final ferocious cap on a trilogy of plays that began with The Shape of Things and Fat Pig. [7], LaBute wrote a sequel to the play, Reasons to be Happy, which premiered in June 2013 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in an MCC Theatre production. Carly setzt him drun drm, a freet Greg datt hatt am Auge kuckt an seet, datt hien nischt weess wat. It was selected for three Tony Awards (Best Play, Best Leading Actress, and Best Leading Actor). Type: Dramedy. Microsoft Edge is the only browser that allows you to manage your tabs on the side with a single click. Trio av pjser (som ocks inkluderar The Shape of Things och Fat Pig) r inte kopplade till karaktrer eller plot utan genom det terkommande temat kroppsbild inom det amerikanska samhllet.Reasons to Be Pretty hade premir p Broadway 2008. Kent says that he expects Carly to hit the gym the day after the baby is born. Damn, she's good-looking! The words he'll use to describe my breasts or my butt or things like that It's too much, it is, I can't even start to go there without wanting to throw up. "[1], The Broadway production, also directed by Kinney, began previews at the Lyceum Theatre on March 13, 2009, opened on April 2, 2009 and closed on June 14, 2009 after 85 performances. Scene Two Carly visits Greg (who is once more perusing some great writing). (Yawns.) Shoving anything you find on the counter over there into your stomach GREG Kent, it's a fucking snack! It is not for children. (Beat.) After trying to flatter him, Carly then wants to ask him an important question about Kent. They have more children, they get better jobs and they make more money than plain . )Not that I think I'm some beauty an old-fashioned glamour gal or anything, I don't but I'm not bad, ya know, not bad at all . I'm gonna head back now. Your teeth are OKjustbut I don't like your lips at all. Enter Demetrius running, with Helena in pursuit. David Gallos versatile set, backed by a container cage of warehouse goods, and Sarah J. Holdens unfussy costumes help cement that grounding among real people. Reasons to be Pretty. They're both being cunts about this GREG Got it. De Greg probiert d'Hnn ze krien, datt hien d'Wierklechkeet d'Carly wier z'erklren, m Kent mengt datt hie sech blien. Summary of the play Reasons to be Pretty meet the characters: steph is the central argument of the play. Attractive people, they reason, are the big winners of natural selection. It pretty much is.Copyright 2008 by Neil LaBute. / TELL ME, I just want you to say it and then I'll stop!GREG No / No, you're STEPH Say it! / Hmmm KENT Yes. You are. That's not a joke, what you said about me is no joke, asshole, and you know it / You KNOW that!GREG Take it easy / I was kidding Jesus, can't even make a little STEPH I'm not gonna take it easy, who the fuck are these people, I couldn't care less!GREG Steph, stop it, now / Stop STEPH Shut up! I would never say that about you, ever, and I'm not gonna be STEPH Bull-shit!/ BULLSHIT! It sucks." Reasons to Be Pretty ass eng hartgeschnidde Komedie geschriwwen vum Neil LaBute . As in the other parts of the trilogy, an insignificant event has a big ripple effect built up through a series of brief scenes. Reasons to Be Pretty is a hard-edged comedy written by Neil LaBute. I said one little thing. Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. ischtens, datt hien Kent beweegt, huet de Greg erklert datt hien et mcht "Well Dir et braucht, okay? OVERVIEW. It was a done deal, second it came outta your mouth.GREG Yeah, well, she screwed me over but good. Fat Pig afforded a glimpse into the bruised soul of a man whose stupidity cost him a chance at happiness. That's one reason The Great War, his contribution to Ensemble Studio Theatre's one-act-play marathon, is so welcome. Greg is a nice guy who has a way of saying the wrong thing without being aware of it. Drops it in. Established 1976. presents. Looking around while he does another quick check of his watch. It's time to eat and you're, you know, racing around town or whatever, you're not gonna stop and eat, plus the drive backyou're staying with your folks, right?STEPH Yes. Pulitzer prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay once stated "Beauty is whatever gives joy." Observing the arguments and revelations between characters in Neil LaBute's newest drama-comedy "Reasons to Be Pretty," one could also conclude that beauty can be whatever drives you mad. Damn KENT Right. Like I said before just as an example put up against this other person who's probably an absolute moron but she's got a pretty face. In hopes of showing Carly the truth about her husband, Greg strongly suggests that she takes the evening off and go home to her husband. 'Course, she didn't need to jump on the phone and repeat it before I even got home, though, did she?KENT Fuck, dude, she's a girl!they've got, like, sonar. Si mengt, datt Kent se gift iwwer si hunn. Gender: Female. Please is like something you crap out in your pants and are too embarrassed to clean up I'm not gonna even listen to "please." Following The Shape of Things and Fat Pig, it is the final installment of a trilogy that focuses on modern-day obsession with physical appearance. / I'm sorry, but I'm I'm STEPH What? CARLY and KENT seated at a table, eating. No.GREG Stephanie, listen / Please STEPH Fuck "please." (Digs out his cell phone to find a picture he took.) They work at a food packing factory and spend most of their breaks together. I was gonna be in town shopping, anyway. Lately.GREG What're you what's that mean? Haven't heard a word since. "/ I just STEPH Uh-huh. / God, you are such a prick, Greg GREG And again with the mouth. but it works for Schreiber in one scene in the second act when his rational facade must break down in a . You try and hide it pretty well but I can spot it, at the crown when you're bending over or as you sit in the kitchen eating and you ask me to get up and fix you something, then I see it. Liest d'Synopsis an d'Zeecheschrft vum Act One. "GREG Whatever. (Mimes a drop.) Steph an Greg un enger Iwwerraschung stoen. And you think she could really do anything, I mean, if some guy snapped and went after people with a machete or hell, I dunno, terrorists came rolling through there on a missionbecause they needed crates of Kleenex as part of their master plan to take over the United Statesyou think Carly's actually gonna be any use in that situation? The changes in women have brought a lot of benefits to society (e.g. Svengalis is stage manager. I need scissors.GREG Oh.STEPH I also have to stop by the apartment and get a few things, too. Look, don't listen to me, I'm doing OK, I'm just being silly. This is it? Women can make a lot of money in the porn industry, as the earning potential is quite incredible. and even if I was, ugly, I'm saying, even if I was not cute or close to that, unattractive . She tells him: I dont know why God made it so hard for us to trust you guys but he did, and it sucks. / Took my car KENT Wow. And nothing about me?GREG I'm / I don't think I said any STEPH You didn't say anything about me compared to her? Even back at school that was true GREG I didn't even think to KENT I'm just saying. You're, you are?KENT Uh-huh.GREG Really?KENT Month or so. She talked shit about you, if you really wanna know. Smelling nice is an essential part of being pretty! And don't try and trick me, dudeyou're totally jealous of her!KENT I know but I'm talking about in theory here. All that stuff GREG I really was trying to be nice.STEPH Let's not get into it again, OK, because I'm not gonna be able to GREG I was, though! / Yeah, yeah KENT I don't like doing a shoddy job, is all. It was, like, ummm, "Yeah, well, maybe Steph hasn't got a face like that girl'smaybe her face is just regularbut I wouldn't trade her for a million bucks." Hien behaapt datt de Greg ni soen, well hien Angscht huet fir Leit di him net gefalen. In Reasons to Be Pretty, Playwright Neil LaBute takes on our ongoing fixation with beauty and one man's inability to say the right thingever. That would suck, completely suck if you were that woman and that was gonna be meI'm saying once I knew how he felt about me, that was what I had to look forward to. Over the sound of hot meat she can hear me talking?STEPH Awww, you're so / You asshole GREG I'm just asking! Si rckelt, awer net virun e puer Kieren him gutt. REASONS TO BE PRETTY a Play. "The Birth Mark." Hien huet mmer erm Greg eng "Pussy" genannt. Plop!KENT makes the noise again and pokes her in the rib. Which was not meant as any sort of comparison. I'm totally behind you.GREG Really?KENT Hundred percent. This. Scene One - After the Break Up Act Two of Reasons to Be Pretty starts in the entryway of a caf. D'Konversatioun schwtzt fir d'Nostalgie fir hir gutt Zesummeliewen zesummen, di dann an d'vertraute Argumentatioun vum Kierper Bild an hir Breet ukomm sinn. (Grins.) 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