Don't get her all CARLY Greg, don't start GREG Tell me what else you said! This calms Carly until further notice. Scoop your top layer away from your face and add soft curls for a pretty style, or straighten it and put it in a high, tight ponytail to look sleek and stylish. At the very edge of, like, a cavern or the, you know, the Grand Canyon or whatever thing makes sense to you GREG This doesn't make sense, not what you're saying to me. (Beat.) I'm sorry that I wanted to go early or whatever Damn. That's a typical trick, after they get mad and all thatding the paint or smack the fender into something.GREG Shit you know, I never even checked?KENT You better.GREG Yeah.KENT I could absolutely see her doing that after what you said. Nope. The changes in women have brought a lot of benefits to society (e.g. Dst knppt Kent, deen fillt datt Greg Gregory ass. Wham!GREG No, no, no, no, no, uh-uh, no!STEPH Yes!GREG No, that's not it! Looking around while he does another quick check of his watch. I want you to tell me! Demetrius and Helena arrive, and he leaves her behind. but it works for Schreiber in one scene in the second act when his rational facade must break down in a . 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? Thanks for coming.STEPH 'S okay. 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. (Beat.) 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. They bounce off and scatter on the floor.GREG Oww, dammit! All fake love, with no valid reason to gossip or care about other's. How'd we get to this place, huh?STEPH Easy.GREG Yeah?STEPH Yep. Efter att ha verdrivit sin ex-vn lmnar Greg Kent, som raser av ilska. 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? If you ever wore the sunglasses I bought you at Christmasthey were fucking expensiveit would help but you don't so your eyes look like shit and you're starting to get wrinkles there, too. Hes proud that hes married to such a hot chick, but isnt hesitant to be unfaithful to her. You fucking asshole!GREG Joke! I mean, think about that. Here are seven things the studies found. Call what that?CARLY Night. 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. Enough said. Jesus. Ya know? I mean, look he's always had an eye for, you know, whatever. ischtens, datt hien Kent beweegt, huet de Greg erklert datt hien et mcht "Well Dir et braucht, okay? '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. There is just no good way to take that! FUCK YOU!GREG OK, you know what, I don't need to stand here and take this I don't. 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. Huh? I rang up their place but I'm only getting the answering machine. Organizational Behavior Research Paper Topics. 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? No, I'm already in the food court. Leave me be. Hes kind of a chauvinistic jock and values women only by their appearance. Being made to feel uncomfortable or even repulsed by the behavior of men comes as no surprise in a Neil LaBute play, but being moved by his male characters is more unexpected. OVERVIEW. / Thanks, Officer They wait silently for a moment. Do not. In Underground Productions' most accessible work yet, Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty explores society's obsession with beauty. ", Read the full "Reasons To Be Pretty" review, First You Shut Up, Then You Grow Up. I jmfrelse med huvudpersonen i Fat Pig uppvisar Greg bde mod och osjlviskhet i slutet av pjsen. 3. That's pathetic! It rocks. Max Montel is associate producer. Her. 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. Hatt smacks him, dann esou wi se pltzlich entschllegt. It's your mom's so I should be kind, but hey fuck that. / (Glances at screen.) Illinois Whistleblower Act, 740 ILCS 174/1, et seq., and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. And remember GREG Got it.KENT keep this shit to yourself. / 'Preciate it.GREG No prob. "As its title suggests, "Reasons to Be Pretty" deals to some extent with a culture in thrall to physical beauty. She portrays Steph in Neil LaBute's "Reasons To Be Happy," the same character whom we first saw on the same stage at the Lucille Lortel Theater screaming at her boyfriend Greg in LaBute's 2008 (lower-case) play "reasons to be pretty." That play moved to Broadway the following year. That's one reason The Great War, his contribution to Ensemble Studio Theatre's one-act-play marathon, is so welcome. / Yeah, but not all of me.GREG That's not true STEPH It is. (Beat.) I was gonna be in town shopping, anyway. Trophies, in sports and beautiful women, are his focus. A parking lot. Fat Pig afforded a glimpse into the bruised soul of a man whose stupidity cost him a chance at happiness. I mean, this is like a serious personality glitch you've got there STEPH SAY IT TO ME, SAY IT! / Thanks.STEPH Doesn't matter, you're just deflecting it again Yes, she heard you guys, clear as day. Maybe she looks at her and thinks, "This dude must be worth it, a woman like that on his arm." All the characters are ordinary people, people that you know or know of in everyday life. 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. 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? fine.STEPH Yeah.GREG Do what you want.STEPH I am. reasons to be happy The lights pop on. Be serious now (Beat.) No, I meant that my what he writes about is CARLY So it's gonna be you know. Everything else is sweet, too. (Beat.) / No, that's great, Kent.KENT It's whatever, man, but it's smacked me for a loop, tell you that much. And I definitely didn't use that word, so that's STEPH Bullshit!GREG I didn't! Lounge Theatre, 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard. (Beat.) De Greg huet Plng fir d'Schoul ze goen, a realisiert datt hien net op engem Lagerhaus fir de Rescht vu sengem Liewen ze schaffen. You can even cuff me if you wanna CARLY No, I'm tired of you now.KENT That's nice.CARLY I am.KENT Well, damn, baby, I don't know what sort of remedy I've got for that CARLY I do. You said some stupid shit and this is what happens GREG Come on, Steph STEPH No, I'm not gonna "come on" today Today is not a "come on" day. It's hard when it happens on the job, so I try to keep that down to a minimummy thoughts about the matterplus I gotta deal with all the crap I get from people about her being a detective or whatever, wearing a uniform and all that shitit's humiliating, really, even having her at my place of work, but we're stuck needing two incomes. Oh, nothing GREG No, seriously. That's OK I'll just walk around for a bit. / Fine. Often the writers provocations have been channeled through men who were proudly unrepentant about their ruthlessness, misogyny and immorality. What for?GREG Because I'm, I'm, so I can explain the STEPH You don't need to, I've already heard all the explanations I wanna hear and I don't believe you. Hon pratar om graviditeten. by Neil LaBute. I'm right here. 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. 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. Don't play the "Stephanie" game, do not do it!GREG But I didn't say anything, I'm telling you the truth here! I read the synopsis on the back first, I told her thatsaid I'm sorry for I think I said "I'm sorry." / Yes, you did!GREG Steph STEPH No, don't, do not "Steph" me right now!GREG Come on, Stephanie STEPH Don't do that, you prick! Why? She follows his recommendation. It's not, I mean, did she say that I ? (Beat.) Yeah. Reasons to Be Pretty ass eng hartgeschnidde Komedie geschriwwen vum Neil LaBute . Going on about our lives and situations and / Nothing! When someone looks or acts different from their level of standards, they're quick to judge and criticize. I'm just, like, totally baffled by this KENT nods and yawnschecks his watch. How gay is that?GREG Very. "Reasons to Be Pretty," showing this weekend at The Playhouse in San Antonio, / Seriously, Steph, why are you ?STEPH (reading) "Greg, your hair is thinningI'm a hairdresser so I should know. (Laughs.) 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. By me saying that one ?STEPH Yes. ", 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 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! Reasons To Be Pretty will be performed by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. / Call Steph and make some big ol' CARLY What? Picks up an ashtray and fires it across the room at GREG. 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. No, not in comparison or / Nope.STEPH Or anything like that? 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