Looking around while he does another quick check of his watch. Shit! . The chick with the face.GREG Oh yeah, right, rightI had no idea what her name was. No. fine.STEPH Yeah.GREG Do what you want.STEPH I am. Lyceum Theatre; 149 W. 45th St., New York, NY; Auditions will be held on Saturday, April 20 at 10:00 a.m. with call-backs on the evening of Tuesday, April 23 at the Progressive Womens Association, 305 Washington Ave., Clarksburg, WV. Tries to go for a kiss but ends up bumbling one on her cheek. She visits about her pregnancy. "No one takes me seriously. STEPH. It is tight, tense and emotionally true, and it portrays characters who actually seem part of the world that the rest of us live in. Just do it and I will quit.GREG waits for a moment, gathers himself. In Reasons to Be Pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female coworker's pretty face and his own girlfriend Steph's lack thereof get back to Steph.But that's just the beginning. I'm totally behind you.GREG Really?KENT Hundred percent. I don't need to do that, make a point of any kind.GREG Then why can't we just ?STEPH Because we can't go back. Better?CARLY A little.She smiles and nudges him. That's what Carly said to me you said. Si freet ob Greg sech mat Kent a Meeder erausknnt, awer de Greg lit an seet datt et just Leit vu Aarbecht waren. Kent bullies him, wrestles him to the ground, and then calls his ex-girlfriend ugly. Yeah, it's me. For I must now to Oberon. Yep. Det r den tredje och sista delen av en trilogi. / It wasn't.STEPH No? It's not my faultI was just going along (Beat.) The mall. In Underground Productions' most accessible work yet, Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty explores society's obsession with beauty. Sorry, but I'm not GREG Stephanie, this is crazy, all the stuff you're saying, because I really care for you and you do, too, I know you do STEPH No! The real reasons why people bully others. (Beat.) / The message was lost.GREG Fine. Scene Two Carly visits Greg (who is yet again reading some classic literature). / This might help you if you meet somebody else who's dumb enough to date you GREG Why? [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. I'm so beat, man KENT 'Cept for that new girl. On her way to work.GREG She called you?CARLY Yes. Sleep his seat on thy eyelid. Greg's best buddy, Kent, and Kent's wife, Carly, also enter into the picture, and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. Haven't heard a word since. [Exit Robin. (Hands back the book.) Lindsay Wagner.GREG Great. Reasons to Be Pretty (stylized in all-lowercase) is a play by Neil LaBute, his first to be staged on Broadway. A hopelessly romantic drama about the hopelessness of romance, reasons to be pretty is the final act in the trilogy including The Shape of Things and Fat Pig. Demetrius and Helena arrive, and he leaves her behind. 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! She asks if Greg was out with Kent and girls, but Greg lies and says that it was just guys from work. Why? / You know / I was just STEPH Oh. Please, just explain that one bit to me and then you can go. [8], Title treatment for the Broadway production, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, "Neil LaBute's 'Reasons to Be Happy', Starring Jenna Fischer and Josh Hamilton, Ends Off-Broadway Run", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reasons_to_Be_Pretty&oldid=1026090620, This page was last edited on 31 May 2021, at 09:29. Have to drop on the side of the missus in a flat-out open contest like that, 'course I do, but I'm completely with you. CARLY and KENT seated at a table, eating. / Sit down.GREG Thanks. [3], In reviewing the Broadway production for the New York Times, Brantley said, "Even more than when I saw it last June, reasons flows with the compelling naturalness of overheard conversation" and concluded, "It's never easy to say what you mean, or to know what you mean to begin with. You coming to practice?GREG Uh-huh, three-thirty. / She bang it up or anything? (Beat.) It is not that confusingyou opened my eyes to a lot of shit, that's all. )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 . Shit. 'S true.CARLY That's why they call it that.GREG What? How good do I gotta be?KENT Good enough to get us that motherfucking trophy! NYT Critic's Pick. / I barely mentioned you, that's all. Svengalis is stage manager. / Yeah, yeah KENT I don't like doing a shoddy job, is all. Carly an Greg sinn an der Paus. Yeah. Oodles of items that we order with our paychecks off QVC so I don't get why you're busting my balls when I say that I'm trying to be a useful member of my team tonight which can only lead to more work which equals money and additional crap to purchase and wear and eat. Fucker! Hon fljer hans rd. / It is to me, anyway.She shakes her head, putting an end to that part of the chat.He opens his mouth to say something else but stops himselfwhat's the use?She glances at her watch and checks her phone. I'm just trying to be STEPH What did you say that she heard and then called me about? Although they do not rekindle the relationship, the characters in Reasons to Be Pretty represent a rather optimistic view on relationships and young, middle class Americans. / (Smiles.) ", Greg str ntligen upp mot Kent, inte bara fr att han r motbjudande, inte bara fr att han r en ktenskapsbryter, och inte bara fr hans kommentarer om Steph. Greg attempts to clarify that he no longer lie about Kents issue. Enter Demetrius running, with Helena in pursuit. In Reasons to Be Pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female coworker's pretty face and his own girlfriend Steph's lack thereof get back to Steph. Reasons to be Pretty. You'll know it and I will pounce on you like I was death itself if you're lying to me Seriously. Her mom's eating this up, I'm sure. (Smiles.) They sit opposite each other.GREG So.STEPH Yeah.GREG Hey. Steph and Greg unexpectedly encounter each other. Steph r p en date, och det tidigare paret pratar obekvmt och pratar om att vara trevlig. Illinois Whistleblower Act, 740 ILCS 174/1, et seq., and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. 'S the only way I'll make it to break KENT That doesn't make sense GREG They're good, though. They work at a food packing factory and spend most of their breaks together. I think they're small and piggish and you make it worse by squinting a lot. Adorable.STEPH Yeah? / TELL ME, I just want you to say it and then I'll stop!GREG No / No, you're STEPH Say it! (Sits forward.) That's KENT I'm just not willing to make lunch for myself all week so you can feel like some big-time Clarence Darrowsorry, bro. "Meant as a compliment," he says to me, like that should calm my nerves or something, so fuck that. I'm not kidding around here! And, see, the thing of it is, you enjoy her, you're knocked out by her as this lady that you feel the need to possess or have as your own, but in the end, I mean, from that day ononce you do get heryou start to worry about keeping her because of all these other guys who're having the same damn fantasy about 'er that you did! Left a message, anyway. Attractive, I'm saying. Hon misstnker att Kent fuskar p henne. All the power this charm doth owe. Over it.KENT What?GREG Them. Even back at school that was true GREG I didn't even think to KENT I'm just saying. Reasons to Be Pretty adalah sebuah komedi keras yang ditulis oleh Neil LaBute. Even before getting to know the person, they jump into the worst assumptions of them. Sexy is often associated with being "hot," that . He doesn't stop.GREG watches and shakes his head. Regular.STEPH OK.GREG See? Men Greg har ftt nog. Ever ything's back to normal, I see.KENT Gotta give 'er time, dude.GREG Right. Checks his watch. You like shit, clothes and stuff so you can cook and like that, right? Reasons fir ze schissen am Broadway 2008 ze ginn. (Beat.) I don't mind it so much, I guess, but she's always in the halls or down on the floor, strutting around, and I hate having to watch myself so much, who I'm talking to or whatever pain in the ass. / I'm not. The plot centers on four young working class friends and lovers who become increasingly dissatisfied with their dead-end lives and each other. So she can hear me talkingshe's suddenly like Wonder Woman or something and from an entire room away she hears me and what I'm saying to Kent as we're out there banging away on his Chevelle. / Great short stories Early American stuff. Lysander awakes, sees Helena, and immediately falls in love with her. / Uh-huh.KENT Seriously! / I'm going to STEPH Then-do-it. Whole deal is square with her, why I don't know. That new girl, up in the shipping department. It was not the end she had pursued through the English High Court, the Court of Appeal, the House of Lords, and the European Court of Human Rights. One thing I said, and it wasn't a, like, some big Goddammit, why'd you tell her? ", 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. It shows him at the full strength he's rarely attained lately. All right? GREG. Carly fortstter att pressa honom och ber Greg att se henne i gonen och sga att han inte vet ngonting. GREGlooks around, embarrassed by what's happening.GREG We should probably just / Go. To me?CARLY She didn't say anything to youit was to me, remember? Somehow, they cool down and wish each other well on their lives without one another. With the sun going downyou know how it shoots a ray out sometimes around something, like a halo, almostit was doing that and he was bathed in this light for a second, in this splash of gold and creamy light, and I thought, "Yeah, he is. Now go keep us safe, 'kay?Another kiss and CARLY gathers her itemswanders off andout. Fat Pig attacked the idea . Vad du ska veta om Nora Helmer, huvudpersonen i "Ett dockhem", En nrmare titt p karaktrerna i "All My Sons" av Arthur Miller. (Beat.) Anyway, I'll see you later. / OK, and? Maybe I'm paranoid, but I don't think so.GREG You're smoking, man, because if anybody has issues with privacy it's your family, OK? Voices travel. (415) 677-9596. Beautiful is broader and can indicate a more serious attitude; she is the woman you may consider marrying. D'Konversatioun schwtzt fir d'Nostalgie fir hir gutt Zesummeliewen zesummen, di dann an d'vertraute . Very cryptic, my friend.KENT That's 'cause you're Don't worry about it.GREG What? 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. Learned more sitting on the toilet than I ever did in school KENT laughs and fires the magazine onto a nearby counter.GREG great. To hurt you, I wrote it down and I read it out loud. More in sorrow than in anger, and more in annoyance than rancor, it must be said that the talented . The Shape of Things showed a shambolic geek getting a ruinous makeover. How fucking lame's that, how bad he wants to take a shot at her? In fact, I've got a little something interesting that has flared up here as of late and I'm gonna just see where the day takes mewhich is what most guys do, right? It is the third and final installment of a trilogy ( The Shape of Things, Fat Pig, and Reasons to Be Pretty ). Angry now.CARLY Stupid KENT I'm I don't have to go back yet. In a, you know, roundabout way CARLY Well, I'd send flowers next time instead, maybe 'cause your communication skills suck. / 'S none of my business, do what you need to do KENT I will.GREG That's your stuff. / I honestly do.STEPH Huh. KENT slaps GREG on the back,points over at the trophies, and pumps his fist as he exits.GREG nods and sits for a moment longer. I'm sorry but nobody, no-body, even the most clueless of guys, is gonna make that kind of mistake. Liest d'Synopsis an d'Zeecheschrft vum Act One. 'S been a ball, lemme tell you. Et gouf nominiert fir dri Tony Awards (Best Play, Best Leading Actress, a Bescht Leading Actor). Get your car back yet?GREG Uh-huh. This is it? Reasons To Be Pretty will be performed by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. / So how come I can't do the same with you even if I said what I said about how you look?STEPH Yes. / She's basically holding you responsible for her closest pal moving away and all that, so give 'er a little space for the moment.GREG Fine. It's no big deal, anything we said, and if she is gonna call you every time I open up my mouth over at their place, then I'm never gonna go there again! The relatively easygoing sprawl of reasons to be pretty allows his characters to talk naturally and at leisure as they ponder their own often less-than-pretty natures. This is a shame but it's true, I've hated kissing you from almost the first time we did it and that's really depressing. / What're you reading?GREG Oh. Something like that. Listen, it's weird, I know that, because I don't count looks as my top thing in a guy, not at alllook at Greg. I mean, look he's always had an eye for, you know, whatever. This calms Carly until further notice. Or "raspberry" or whatever, doesn't really matter. Damn KENT Right. Moves toward CARLY.CARLY Is he coming yet?GREG I don't see 'im (Beat.) Be serious now (Beat.) / What?KENT I'm serious here. Kinda like Gothic.KENT Huh. (Beat.) (Looks at Carly.) / 'Bout, I dunno, two weeks ago KENT Nice. (Smiles.) Fuck. SAY IT. Nodeems hien probiert huet him ze schmecken, huet Carly him dann eng wichteg Fro iwwert Kent. This is a thoughtful, mature play without the sour superiority or shocking twists and dark revelations that have become formulaic in LaButes work. It's not like a math equation or anything, it is fairly simpleyou can't be with a guy who finds you unpleasant to look at. reasons to be prettys raison-dtre may be to showcase four of Aquila Morong Studios finestactingstudents, but withup-and-comers as talented as Novogratz, Coover, Boffey, and Hunt bringing Neil LaButes words to fiery life, this is no mere showcase production. It is L.A. intimate theater at its electrifying best. (Beat.) / Didn't mean to create some international thing here.KENT It's cool. Act Two of Reasons To Be Pretty beginn an der Lobby vum Restaurant. (Digs in pocket.) If I do then somebody notices and I'm not the guy they call for the extra shifts or the holiday hours or that type of deal and you know you like the money.CARLY Everybody likes money.KENT Uh-uh. I'm gonna pick mine up while I'm there, so we don't have to / Sorry I took it but I was pissed. He discloses to her that her date will in the end hurt her sentiments as well, and that he wont be there to support her. I'm very OK with it, believe me GREG Whatever (Beat.) (Pulls a Reader's Digest out of a pocket in his overalls.) FUCK!STEPH Hey, you said it GREG You're crazy! 'S pretty dark CARLY I dunno who that is. She hates me KENT Figures.GREG Yeah. I am. Greg ber om urskt och r mycket frstelig. Greg has plans to go to college, realizing that he doesnt want to work at a warehouse for the rest of his life. Hello? Leaves the flowers.GREG looks around, then reaches down and picks up his keys.After a moment, he carefully opens the paper ball on the table.Flattens it out. Stop it. It's a key, Greg, I didn't ask for half your paycheck or something.GREG (to himself) Yeah, well, you couldn't STEPH What's that?GREG Forget it.STEPH No, I wanna hear what you said.GREG Nothing, Stephanie, all right? I need scissors.GREG Oh.STEPH I also have to stop by the apartment and get a few things, too. Totally.GREG Yeah, but you were all I mean KENT Hey, I'm not crazy! Churl, upon thy eyes I throw. / Don't I get to ask any shit here or is it just a one-sided deal we got going now?STEPH Don't be a complete cock, all right? De Greg huet awer genuch. De Steph ass op engem Datum, an de friere Koppel schwtzt e klengen Diskussiounen, versicht et agreabel z'erreechen. / What?GREG Just talking! What's she supposed to do, smile 'em to death?! Stuck my head in the kitchen and bam!KENT Fuck. Can't believe sometimes that this is the life that God's staked out for me in his infinite planthen I think, who'm I kidding?! Can you imagine what he's actually feeling about my body, and this isn't about sex, not really, but just how he sees my legs or arms, anything OK, yes, I'm thinking about all the rest of it, too, of course I am! Fat Pig afforded a glimpse into the bruised soul of a man whose stupidity cost him a chance at happiness. Sometimes, a friend or, like, some cousin of mine visited a few months back and she whispered to me at a family thing we were at, a barbecue, "God, he's cute. Night doesn't have all that much to do with it CARLY Fine. Huh? And I definitely didn't use that word, so that's STEPH Bullshit!GREG I didn't! Or swimming? This idea is variously known as 'reasons internalism', 'internalism about reasons', or 'the internal reasons theory'. Why Do Women Act Like Men? (She starts crying.) / Huh.GREG No big deal. About her. Efter att ha verdrivit sin ex-vn lmnar Greg Kent, som raser av ilska. The Australian premiere took place in May 2012 at the Darlinghurst Theatre in Sydney, directed by National Institute of Dramatic Arts graduate James Beach and starring Andrew Henry. Find myself just staring at 'em sometimes, and her eyes are a color, I don't even think it's one you'd find in a box of crayonsmaybe one of those bigger cartons, like, sixty-four colors, with the sharpener in itbut even then I'm not sure. Different paths or some shitwhat the hell was all that crap? God, you're so ten. Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. In order to develop his characters . May 22, 2022. Phil Knight. She lets him know: I dont know why God made it so difficult for us to believe you all however he did, and it sucks. All the characters are ordinary people, people that you know or know of in everyday life. Trio drama tidak terhubung oleh karakter atau plot tetapi oleh tema citra tubuh yang berulang dalam masyarakat Amerika. That.GREG But come on, I didn't Stephanie, let's be serious here. / No, that's great, Kent.KENT It's whatever, man, but it's smacked me for a loop, tell you that much. Suddenly, she is there, right in front of him. Reasons to Be Pretty r en hrdkantad komedi skriven av Neil LaBute. OK? (Beat.) You win.KENT Wasn't trying to win anything. He slaps GREG on theback. Nuts and I dunno. If you want a detailed description of scenes and characters, check out this resource pack from the Almeida Theatre in London. Read the full review, Neil Labutes Pretty probes our ugly obsession with beauty. A nice little fight. / Or skillet, if you wanna get fancy.GREG Oh. A loud buzzer sounds.A moment with KENT.KENT It's interesting, having a wife who looks the way mine does. (Beat.) Can't have any dead weight.GREG That's really sensitive, thanks.KENT Dude, it's for youI'm throwing a little love your way, don't be a hater.GREG Just shut up, OK? Steph is on a date, and the former couple awkwardly make small talk, attempting to be pleasant. He elbows her back and they go toittickling each other and kissing and carrying on.GREG wanders through the doors and they stop immediately.CARLY looks at him, turns to KENT and kisses him. Seriously. This play was written by Neil LaBute and was first performed in 2008. Walks over with his own and tosses it; reaches down and collects the last of his buddy's mess, throws it out.CARLY enters with her lunch but stops short when she sees GREG. I actually meant the first CARLY So, yeah, she rang me up and we chatted, like friends do. Just misses him and smashes against the wall.STEPH It fucking isn't!STEPH storms out, leaving GREG alone in the room. A 2-year-old having a temper tantrum is pretty common and generally accepted - or at most, frowned upon. GREG. The prick. I guess there's nothing you can really do about thatguys don't wax or anything like we dobut you should be aware of it, anyway. Summary of the play Reasons to be Pretty meet the characters: steph is the central argument of the play. II. Play type: Contemporary. I mean, really. No.GREG Stephanie, listen / Please STEPH Fuck "please." What you said about me suddenly made total sense about where we're at, Greg, you and me. I'm right here. It is not for children. Obwuel mer ni d'Konfrontatioun tscht Carly a Kent gesinn, ass et impliziert datt d'Carly d'Wahrheet iwwert hir Affr zitt, a geet op en neit Kapitel an hirem Liewen. Your teeth are OKjustbut I don't like your lips at all. 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. Often the writers provocations have been channeled through men who were proudly unrepentant about their ruthlessness, misogyny and immorality. How 'bout if we do it that wayI say it to you and you tell me if it's true or not?GREG I'm not, no that's stupid, so no.STEPH You sure? / 'Preciate it.GREG No prob. 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." It's probably not what you'd think it'd be, all great and wonderful at every turn of the road; it has its disadvantages, believe you me. America's obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in this brutal and exhilarating work. "Match." De Greg probiert d 'Erklrung, datt hien net mi iwwert Kent' Affr lien. / Is that what you told her to do? Two days.KENT No?GREG No call, no text, nothing. Supposed to give ya a little jolt of energy.KENT Yeah, but they're for, you know, like, as a supplement. / And dude GREG Sure. Immediately after Carly leaves, Stephanie stops by to share the news: she is engaged to be married. In a nice way. She talked shit about you, if you really wanna know. What?STEPH You don't remember? She leaves, but not before kissing him good bye one last time. I'm living with some dude who's a child and thinks that because he works this regular shift he can just be a a infant about the rest of his life.KENT Mommy gimme milk, Mommy He half rises, reaching out for her, pawing her breasts. Or to yank my chain, like usual KENT Yeah, well, not this time. Obwuel si net d'Beziung erhalen, d'Charaktere fir d' Reasons ze schissen e relativ optimistesch Blck op d'Beziungen an d'jonk, mttler Klass Amerikaner. 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