"Whatever" is right.GREG All right, just don't be so don't look so triumphant or whatnot. To her parents' house or some crap like that, you know?KENT Right.GREG Making a statement.KENT Exactly.GREG Threw an ashtray at me, actually, and one of those pots, you know, with the handle on it KENT No, what?GREG You know, where you make, like, pancakes and shit You know KENT That's a pan. Sometimes that's all it takes for a person to see how life really is, that they are, like, careening down the wrong highwayof life, I'm sayingthat they managed to get off at the wrong exit or to miss a road sign or something Fuck, that analogy sucks but you know what I'm saying here. In a nice way. Reasons to Be Pretty r en hrdkantad komedi skriven av Neil LaBute. Hie betount, datt hatt e schint Gesiicht hat, fir datt si sech besser fillen. That new girl, up in the shipping department. 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. This calms Carly until further notice. Efter att ha verdrivit sin ex-vn lmnar Greg Kent, som raser av ilska. Listen to you KENT I'm just sayin', baby. Yeah. I'm gonna pick mine up while I'm there, so we don't have to / Sorry I took it but I was pissed. / Yeah.STEPH That's it? [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. ven om vi aldrig ser konfrontationen mellan Carly och Kent, antyds det att Carly kommer att upptcka sanningen om sin mans affr och kommer att g vidare till ett nytt kapitel i hennes liv. Steph and Greg unexpectedly encounter each other. I'm gonna head back now. Reasons To Be Pretty Still - H 2014. Don't. It is the same thing you just said to meI get why you did it like that so you could teach me a lesson, finebut it's the same thing.STEPH It's not.GREG And how's that? (Smiles.) The play opens with the conflict already at boiling point as enraged Steph (Alison Pill) confronts Greg, her partner of four years, about a perceived slight. It's not, I mean, did she say that I ? (Beat.) Huh? (Pulls a Reader's Digest out of a pocket in his overalls.) Hes kind of a chauvinistic jock and values women only by their appearance. He confides in Greg about his sexual exploits, but Greg is too busy contemplating the causes of his loneliness to listen, and too intimidated by his bullying friend to voice his discomfort about being a party to marital infidelity. Steph has become a director at her hair salon. It is the third and final installment of a trilogy ( The Shape of Things, Fat Pig, and Reasons to Be Pretty ). Each of the four characters opens up in a monologue, and while Greg, in the final one, gets to articulate fully the themes of the play and his own emotional maturity through experience, the device does feel a little schematic. Scene Four Carly and Greg are hanging out in the break room. (Beat.) Beauty is deeper than sex (or lust). Huh? Denna pjs fokuserar p kroppsbild inom Amerika, Vad du behver veta om Neil LaButes feta gris, The Dutiful Mother: Mrs Alving frn "Ghosts", verklaganden misslyckas, Georgia avrttar make-mrdaren Kelly Gissendaner, Varfr Tolstojs roman "Anna Karenina" frn 1877 fortfarande resonerar idag, Studiefrgor fr ditt klassrum frn en klassiker frn Kate Chopin. But the protagonist here not only acknowledges his weaknesses, they cause him shame and suffering. Apply for Rights. (Beat.) I'm just, like, totally baffled by this KENT nods and yawnschecks his watch. Reasons to Be Pretty adalah sebuah komedi keras yang ditulis oleh Neil LaBute. And so you and Carly, you guys are, like what?KENT No problems. Greg frsker ta verhanden och antyder att han kanske berttar Carly sanningen, men Kent tror att han bluffar. He doesn't stop.GREG watches and shakes his head. "Match." Carly an Greg sinn an der Paus. Preliminaries. Casting is by Donna Morong, CSA. Nodeem de Ex-Frnd scho matkritt huet, verlisst de Greg Kent, deen zu Wut handelt. Picks up an ashtray and fires it across the room at GREG. / Yeah.STEPH So, you wanna feel my back, be there up against me that way GREG Yes STEPH Why, so you don't gotta look at my face?GREG Oh, God! The metaphor or what have you.GREG Yes.STEPH Good.GREG I get it.STEPH Terrific.GREG I do.STEPH Then that's all I came for. / I honestly do.STEPH Huh. Shit! / No, go ahead, I'm justgo on. / It isn't.GREG I'm just saying / OK, fine STEPH What'd you think, I was gonna forget or something?GREG No, but I mean STEPH Like there'd be some sort of miracle or conversion or what have you in a couple days of me being away? Scene Four Carly and Greg are hanging out in the lounge. Don't try to act like it didn't happen and I'm just having a "girl thing" here because that's not the story, bud. Why would you ever say a thing like that about someone and particularly a person you supposedly like. Without question.GREG nods and checks a wall clock against his watch. I mean, I can take a lot, pretty much, anyway, but I'm, like, my face? / You never change / Go for it.KENT Can't. Look, don't listen to me, I'm doing OK, I'm just being silly. What follows are a series of tte--ttes set either in the break room of the factory where Greg, Steph, Gregs best buddy Kent (Mercer Boffey), and Kents security guard girlfriend Carly (Andrea Hunt) pull the nightly third shift, or at a mall food court or local Italian restaurant lobby oron the playing field where Kent vows to lead the factory softball team to its first trophy in over twenty years, and since this is Neil LaBute(Tony-nominated for reasons to be pretty) were talking about here, audiences can rest assured that dialog doesnt get any more astute, razor-edged, or in the case of this play in particular, outrageously funny than the words shouted, sneered, spat out, snarled, or otherwise uttered by his four flawed yet achingly real characters. It really doesn't.STEPH But you get the idea! (Beat.) And what you said, all that you said about meeven though it's just the one thingit's completely and for all-time's sake true. I bought it with my own money and so I'm taking it.With that she turns and exits, disappearing down the hall.Shoes clacking on the tile. / I'm going to STEPH Then-do-it. (Beat.) (Beat.) It wasn't, like, some big STEPH Backpedaling like some / Fuck you.GREG Look, God, I just wanna go to STEPH I don't care what you wanna do. Where do I begin with your nose? All the crap I'm feeling about you but have held my tongue on I was gonna e-mail you, but this here is way better. Ride it to shore and see what comes of it. Scene Three Greg and Kent prepare for work-related softball game. Seriously. How fucking lame's that, how bad he wants to take a shot at her? Ini adalah angsuran ketiga dan terakhir dari sebuah trilogi ( The Shape of Things , Fat Pig , dan Reasons to Be Pretty ). Hey you guys over there, check this out GREG Stephanie, don't.STEPH Sit down, Greg, and listen for once. Taking scalps GREG Yep.KENT Noble savages my ass, right? It was meant as a compliment.STEPH I see (Beat.) A firestorm of abuse and invective, hot enough to scald the hide off a thick-skinned man, blasts through the opening minutes . Theatergoers will have barely settled into their seats at "Reasons to Be Pretty," which makes its Broadway debut this week at the Lyceum, before they will . Wrongfully Terminated Due to Discrimination. 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. Kent mobbar honom, brottas mot marken och kallar sedan sin ex-flickvn "ful. I know that's your soup of the jour but, please, just give me a little GREG Fine! (Beat.) This incenses Kent, who feels that Greg is being critical. / Thanks, Officer They wait silently for a moment. Kent zitt him d'Rumeuren, rifft hien op de Buedem, a rifft dann seng Ex-Frndin "ierlech". and that was about it. It really is. It's not my faultI was just going along (Beat.) Kent says that he expects Carly to hit the gym the day after the baby is born. (Beat.) Which was not meant as any sort of comparison. Uh-uh.She thinks about this for a moment, mulling over what she's just said. The prick. Auditions are coming up on April 20 for our production of Neil LaButes Reasons To Be Pretty. (Beat.) 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. Conflicting Values in the Management of the Overpo Logics - Analysis of an Article by Peter Kreeft Essay. Look, Carly, why'd you have to do that? Before the question, Carly reveals that she is three months pregnant. Checks his watch. STEPH. No. (Digs in pocket.) Si rckelt, awer net virun e puer Kieren him gutt. Or to yank my chain, like usual KENT Yeah, well, not this time. Leave me be. (Beat.) I've made this over the last however long I dunno, since I left, and it covers all your shit. No offense but she can be a real fuckhole sometimes, dude. Lyceum Theatre; 149 W. 45th St., New York, NY; She tells him: I dont know why God made it so hard for us to trust you guys but he did, and it sucks. Greg ass entschllegt an ass ganz ze verstoen. We can sit here for a while if you like. You're pissed off now?! Even back at school that was true GREG I didn't even think to KENT I'm just saying. The chick with the face.GREG Oh yeah, right, rightI had no idea what her name was. You like shit, clothes and stuff so you can cook and like that, right? Han kallar Greg upprepade gnger fr en "fitta". We need to get back, anywaygot, like, thirty pallets of cereal backed up.CARLY Hey, baby They have a shared momenta little nuzzle for show; GREG isforced to wait. Huh?CARLY I dunno. The Shape of Things showed a shambolic geek getting a ruinous makeover. 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. / Don't lie, you fucker! Margot Lee Shetterly. I've got a remedy, which is to take off and go back to my station. When Greg makes an innocuous, off-handed remark about his girlfriend Steph, it triggers a battle by which their relationship will forever be defined. GREG staring straight at her.GREG What's that mean?CARLY I'm saying when she calls again I will ask if that's what you did.GREG So, you mean what? To me?CARLY She didn't say anything to youit was to me, remember? Si freet ob Greg sech mat Kent a Meeder erausknnt, awer de Greg lit an seet datt et just Leit vu Aarbecht waren. Hey, hi, I'm so glad that you Hello? (to the others) OK, show's over now, go back to your chop suey shit that you're eating and leave us be STEPH watches the crowd disperse; turns to GREG again.GREG This shouldn't be happening STEPH But it is.GREG I care about you, Stephanie. 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. Called me at home.GREG Right, right, that's what I meant CARLY She said stuff to me. Hes not a fighter and prefers to avoid conflict. In Fat Pig, the writers ability to make his audience empathize with the protagonists crippling cowardice yielded uncharacteristic emotional rewards. I jmfrelse med huvudpersonen i Fat Pig uppvisar Greg bde mod och osjlviskhet i slutet av pjsen. If you want a detailed description of scenes and characters, check out this resource pack from the Almeida Theatre in London. It pretty much is.Copyright 2008 by Neil LaBute. Big time.GREG This is just stupid, so I'm not gonna STEPH Don't do it! / Is that what you told her to do? They can be super judgmental. Lysander awakes, sees Helena, and immediately falls in love with her. View Essay - Reasons to Be Pretty from THEATRE 10 at Chaffey College. Anyhow, sorry before, with us getting a little hot there KENT No worries. GREGlooks around, embarrassed by what's happening.GREG We should probably just / Go. (Takes out a book.) / I was joking!STEPH Fuck jokes! Reasons To Be Pretty will be performed by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. Begins reading.At work. / You fucker GREG I mean it. Courtesy Geffen Playhouse. I've done it.GREG Good, then get the hell outta here STEPH I will.GREG you and your, your stupid face.She turns on him, almost spitting out the next bit as she gets to her feet.STEPH I knew it! In spite of the fact that we never observe the showdown among Carly and Kent, it is inferred that Carly will find reality with regards to her spouses undertaking, and will move onto another section in her life. Fr vem du r och vad du har gjort, och fr allt du kommer utan tvekan att beg resten av ditt liv. She asks if Greg was out with Kent and girls, but Greg lies and says that it was just guys from work. This play, directed by the playwright, shouldn't. It's just a thing, it happened, I can't help it.GREG No, I'm sure you probably didn't have much to do with it, really. 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. Subsequent to attempting to compliment him, Carly then needs to ask him a significant inquiry about Kent. He is also the author of. 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