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. You'll know it and I will pounce on you like I was death itself if you're lying to me Seriously. . 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. / Yeah.STEPH That's it? Hon pratar om graviditeten. Nevertheless, theres an insightfulness and texture to the observations here thats always compelling. reasons to be happy The lights pop on. Over the sound of hot meat she can hear me talking?STEPH Awww, you're so / You asshole GREG I'm just asking! To search for an exact name or title, use quotation marks at the beginning and end. One thing I said, and it wasn't a, like, some big Goddammit, why'd you tell her? Carly fortstter att pressa honom och ber Greg att se henne i gonen och sga att han inte vet ngonting. et seq. Gotta cover my ass, the investment and all. Despite the fact that they don't revive the relationship, the characters in Reasons to Be Pretty speak to a fairly idealistic view on connections and youthful, white collar class Americans. Maybe she looks at her and thinks, "This dude must be worth it, a woman like that on his arm." Act Two of Reasons To Be Pretty beginn an der Lobby vum Restaurant. "We're doing it my way or else!") is just as common and generally happens for the same reason: They want something they can't have, and refuse to accept that they can . 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. I'm STEPH She was in the other room, you bastard! De Greg probiert d 'Erklrung, datt hien net mi iwwert Kent' Affr lien. Is that OK?GREG 'Course. Reasons to Be Pretty r en hrdkantad komedi skriven av Neil LaBute . I said one little thing. / Cannot.GREG Why, Steph? They bounce off and scatter on the floor.GREG Oww, dammit! Tries to go for a kiss but ends up bumbling one on her cheek. Why would you ever say a thing like that about someone and particularly a person you supposedly like. (Beat.) / (Beat.) / Yeah. "No one takes me seriously. It's your mom's so I should be kind, but hey fuck that. Whole body, and a great face GREG OK, OK. Not a single blow or a bilious barb is thrown for a gratuitous reason, making this LaBute's tightest and most immediately affecting play yet. Seriously. 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. I am. They can be super judgmental. Greg attempts to clarify that he no longer lie about Kents issue. More in sorrow than in anger, and more in annoyance than rancor, it must be said that the talented . Kent mobbar honom, brottas mot marken och kallar sedan sin ex-flickvn "ful. Treat 'em nice 'specially the ones with a badge.CARLY Yep.GREG Yeah, great, thanks KENT Just a tip there, buddy.CARLY Bye, sweetie.KENT See you at seven, baby. Will Pyke in Reasons to be Pretty - Underground Productions. Your tongue is like this little poker and you move it too fast and well, you get the idea. Knowing that he's sitting there at dinner across from me but he's always reaching for something, the salt or whatever, or looking around the room, and why? Yes.STEPH Good. I mean, think about that. She suspects that Kent is cheating on her. All the power this charm doth owe. 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. Just finishing up their lunchit's after midnight and they're both tired. I've got my own shit to deal with KENT No kidding.GREG What's that mean?KENT Means your back axle could be all knocked out've alignment and you don't even know it yet (Smiles.) It is not. Steph has become a director at her hair salon. Pretty much.KENT Even with the over time GREG Agreed. Here are seven things the studies found. When new technologies displace old ones, jobs can be lost; prices can be cut; investments can be wiped out. Huh?CARLY I dunno. / Really?GREG At all. / Heard who we're playing nextit's that fucking bail bonds team! Liest d'Synopsis an d'Zeecheschrft vum Act One. (Beat.) "As its title suggests, "Reasons to Be Pretty" deals to some extent with a culture in thrall to physical beauty. But I think that I, yeah, I'm sure I did. . Erkennt och, datt hien einfach drit, an datt hir vier Joer zesummen nie zu enger Bestietnis hunn. Other factors, including opportunity or unmet sexual needs, may also play a part in infidelity that's motivated . It doesn'tshe's not mad because her best friend had the guts to tell her the truth; she is upset because of the things you've said about her GREG Thing! America's obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in this brutal and exhilarating work. [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. As with its predecessors, reasons to be pretty continues the author's exploration of what lies beneath the surface of contemporary America within the context of the relationships between lovers and friends. They work at a food packing factory and spend most of their breaks together. STEPH.GREG stands awkwardly. A security guard at the same firm, Kents wife Carly (Piper Perabo), reported the conversation back to Steph, who promptly exits the relationship, rebuffing Gregs repeated attempts to make it up to her. [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. Di folgend ass eng Zesummefaassung an Analyse vun den Evenementer am Gesetz Zwee. When Greg makes an innocuous, off-handed remark about his girlfriend Steph, it triggers a battle by which their relationship will forever be defined. He likewise concedes that he is just floating, and that their four years together may never have transformed into marriage. However, the real subject of this taut, unexpectedly affecting drama is a man forced to take a long, hard look at himself after a flippant comment about his girlfriends appearance kills their relationship. Following Carly departs, Stephanie makes a trip to share the news: she is locked in to be hitched. Scene Three Greg and Kent get ready for business related softball match-up. That's what I'll do so you'd better just stay right thereno, I don't want you to come over and hold me, God nobut you better stay around and argue this shit out or I'm gonna wreck your life a little bit. / Want it on the down low.GREG Kent, take it easy, all right? Although we never see the confrontation between Carly and Kent, it is implied that Carly will discover the truth about her husbands affair, and will move onto a new chapter in her life. What?STEPH You don't remember? Greg has plans to go to college, realizing that he doesnt want to work at a warehouse for the rest of his life. And so you and Carly, you guys are, like what?KENT No problems. Hey, that's how it's done's the way we get by. / I didn't say that!STEPH Don't lie, you fucker! Your toes are, they're like, almost like fingers and you bite your own toenailsI know you do, I've seen youand that goes down as the most disgusting fact I know. She hates me KENT Figures.GREG Yeah. (Smiles.) Shit! / Say it! I always felt like my face was one of my better parts and he's talking about me like I'm some old Buick out in the backyard that he keeps thinking about fixing but just can't get to it. From the start, Greg battles that he doesn't accept that Kent is unfaithful. It'll be me this time, OK, not the neighbors! Beauty is deeper than sex (or lust). The authenticity of naked feeling and self-reflection Sadoski brings to the role is instrumental in placing Reasons to Be Pretty among the prolific LaButes more satisfying plays. Even Perabos cute, tidily packaged Carly addresses in a monologue the ways in which being easy on the eyes has worked against her, from dismissal of her nonphysical attributes to undue attention from creeps. The real reasons why people bully others. Fuck off that's what I want you to do, Greg, get the fuck out of my life and leave me alone, let me start over in a serious fashion, maybe in a relationship or not, I dunno, but if it is in something like that may it please, please be with someone who can keep from being an asshole and all overbearing and thinking they know everything because you don't. That was all I'm yes. SAY IT. De Greg huet awer genuch. Ya know? GREG flinches as he opens up an energy snack.KENT What's that?GREG PowerBar.KENT Why're you having that?GREG What do you mean?KENT You just had lunchnow you're having one of those, too?GREG Uh-huh. It was more of, like, a point of contrastwith you as the good thing.STEPH Huh. All fake love, with no valid reason to gossip or care about other's. So what about her?KENT I'm, you know (Waits.) This. (Beat.) Smack in the middle of yet another fight. You coming to practice?GREG Uh-huh, three-thirty. And she is fine, man, lemme tell you. Scene Four Carly and Greg are hanging out in the break room. (Sunday performances are matinees). Two people Greg and Stephanie standing in front of a discount store. To me?CARLY She didn't say anything to youit was to me, remember? Why do we feel that way, though, I wonder? That's not true. 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. Reasons To Be Pretty Still - H 2014. / What're you reading?GREG Oh. 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? It pretty much is.Copyright 2008 by Neil LaBute. Take it easy.KENT Just pointing it outgot a group of guys counting on ya is all GREG Fine.KENT And getting all chubby is not the way to win her back. Just ask yourself that question. For what your identity is and what you have done, and for all the sh*t you will no uncertainty execute for an amazing remainder. (Smiles.) 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. Perabos stage inexperience sometimes shows, and following her work in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Blackbird and Mauritius, the talented Pill needs to be careful that her fiery explosions dont turn into mannerisms. As a couple. A parking lot. A tense second-act scene between Sadoski and Perabo, for example, results in an emotional catharsis that is the most singularly heartrending moment in the author's entire body of work. Greg has plans to head off to college, understanding that he doesnt need to work at a distribution center for an amazing remainder. It just is (Beat.) Trophies, in sports and beautiful women, are his focus. Anyway KENT She was mad at me before, so I'm sure it just carried over. Auditions are coming up on April 20 for our production of Neil LaBute's Reasons To Be Pretty. (Starts to eat.) 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! First staged off-Broadway in 2008 and then on Broadway in 2009, "reasons to be pretty" completes LaBute's trilogy about beauty, following 2001's "The Shape of Things" and 2004's "Fat Pig . That way, I don't even have to see you KENT Fuck! While Ezra and Aria may have been a PLL endgame couple, there's a lot wrong with Rosewood's English teacher, and it gets worse throughout the show. / Hawthorne. I said this. Kent is married to Carly. Greg at long last confronts Kent, not on the grounds that he is upsetting, not on the grounds that he is a philanderer, and not due to his remarks about Steph. (to him) Are you listening?GREG Yep. 5. section 2. themes & topics looking good source. Some way or another, they chill off and wish each other well on their lives without each other. GREG and KENT sitting around the break room of their workplace. Not that, but even on the fence How can I? Right? Or STEPH I see. 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? 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. Huh? Time?STEPH After this Do you mind staying out for a while? Has a drink in front of him. 64 views, 2 likes, 0 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Reels from JeGaysus: You know EXACTLY the type of Christians I'm talking about. 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