She was gonna just be on the line at one point, that's what she first came in and applied for, but then they had an opening in security and one of these big cheeses out frontthis dumbshit over in human resourcessays he'd like to help her out and suggests an easier job, up near him where she can sit and watch all the video cameras, sign vendors in and out at the doorplus he says, "You make a really great first impression for our company." Here. Just the one word and no definition, and any guy who stumbles across it'll just roll his eyes and know what the hell it means. He also admits that he is simply drifting, and that their four years together may never have turned into marriage. She visits about her pregnancy. 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. Before the question, Carly reveals that she is three months pregnant. They're kinda green, but sorta blue, too. (Beat.) All right? Vad betyder Charlotte Perkins Gilmans "The Yellow Wallpaper"? I mean, it's nice as well, I don't mean to imply it's not but there's various drawbacksand not just, like, that joke that people tellthe one about how "behind every pretty woman you'll find a guy who's tired of fucking her," not even that although that's mostly accurate and you hear it because it's become a clich, which just means "true." Steph is acting like Crazy Horse KENT Exactly. 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? 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. And sometimes you smell. Kinda like Gothic.KENT Huh. Liest d'Synopsis an d'Zeecheschrft vum Act One. De Greg knnt endlech op Kent, net nmmen well hien onbestnneg ass, net nmmen well hien e Adulterer ass, an net nmme winst senge Kommentaren iwwer Steph. Puts a fucking crimp in my plans.CARLY Yep.KENT Well, I'd never pick work over you so I'm sorry that you ever thought that was the case I'm here to tell you that it's not and I'm happy to hang out till Rich comes looking for me with your other pals from security CARLY Yeah? Where do I begin with your nose? I'm just, like, totally baffled by this KENT nods and yawnschecks his watch. I just know that women throw everything they've got into their physical being, and a main part of thatthe main partis the face. Beautiful is broader and can indicate a more serious attitude; she is the woman you may consider marrying. / She can God, I was coming to eat some food, you know? Shit KENT Well need you strong and fast for the team, man. / Heard who we're playing nextit's that fucking bail bonds team! 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. / Yeah, well, that's fucked. Kent zitt him d'Rumeuren, rifft hien op de Buedem, a rifft dann seng Ex-Frndin "ierlech". CARLY and KENT seated at a table, eating. (Beat.) Reasons to be Pretty. / I don't doubt it.KENT Don't need to, I'm telling you she is and she is. . / No GREG Bullshit CARLY Hey, don't swear at me, OK?GREG No, seriously, Carly, that is, like, a bunch of bullshit and don't do that to me, all right? Huh?GREG Kent, I was KENT Don't start in with my gal, all right? I'm right here. She's married to Kent and the stakes go up when she finds . / 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! Nothing very new.GREG I guess / Yep. (Beat.) Carly och Greg hnger i pausrummet. She nods her head.STEPH I really do feel that, that I'm not this person who gets off on looks or the more, like, physical side of men but when it's the other way around shit, you know? REASONS TO BE PRETTY a Play. / Seriously, Steph, why are you ?STEPH (reading) "Greg, your hair is thinningI'm a hairdresser so I should know. / Thanks.GREG Of course. / (She crumples up the page and drops it.) I don't careI couldn't care less about her. We talked. (Sunday performances are matinees). No contemporary writer has more astutely captured the brutality in everyday conversation and behavior; that kind of insight requires sensitivity and soul-searching.". Hon frgar om Greg var ute med Kent och tjejer, men Greg ljuger och sger att det bara var killar frn jobbet. Han berttar fr henne att hennes datum s smningom kommer att skada hennes knslor ocks och att han inte kommer att vara dr fr att hjlpa henne. I'm realistic and I know me as a personI don't have that much going for me, not really. When new technologies displace old ones, jobs can be lost; prices can be cut; investments can be wiped out. / I barely mentioned you, that's all. By Neil LaBute.Directed by Susi Damilano.Through May 11. / What? Just so you know, though it's a pan.GREG Fine! Duh GREG No.KENT I've been seeing her. And I definitely didn't use that word, so that's STEPH Bullshit!GREG I didn't! Huh? He accentuates that she has a pretty face, improving her vibe. Nothing? / We can't all get to Barney Fife our way through life.CARLY Fine. / Because, Greg GREG But why? Fir wien Dir sidd a wat Dir gemaach hutt, a fir all deng * s du et kee Zweiwel fir de Rescht vu rem Liewen ze maachen. I am. 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. I told her thatsaid I'm sorry for I think I said "I'm sorry." OK? Centred around four young working class friends (who are also coupled up), the play follows the aftermath of a seemingly off . That doesn't really make any sense CARLY No?GREG I mean, not really They could call it "siesta" and it'd still be dark out. (Smiles.) Reasons to Be Pretty r en hrdkantad komedi skriven av Neil LaBute . Kent mobbar honom, brottas mot marken och kallar sedan sin ex-flickvn "ful. Right?KENT Actually, no. Those exact words.GREG All right then. Greg's best buddy, Kent, and Kent's wife, Carly, also enter into the picture, and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. May 22, 2022. / I'm just saying. (Beat.) Hit the pet store.They sit quietly for a moment, staring straight ahead. Lindsay Wagner.GREG Great. Carly an Greg sinn an der Paus. The discussion segues to wistfulness for their great occasions together, which at that point changes into the natural contention about self-perception and their separation. It really doesn't.STEPH But you get the idea! How'd we get to this place, huh?STEPH Easy.GREG Yeah?STEPH Yep. (Beat.) A hopelessly romantic drama about the hopelessness of romance, reasons to be pretty is the final installment (following The Shape of Things and Fat Pig) in Neil LaBute's critically acclaimed trilogy focusing on America's obsession with physical appearance.When an off-handed remark disrupts the lives of two young couples, they confront self-deceit, treachery . Hon slr honom och frsker pltsligt be om urskt. 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. Erkennt och, datt hien einfach drit, an datt hir vier Joer zesummen nie zu enger Bestietnis hunn. You know?CARLY Wow. But "reasons to be pretty," the third entry in this unofficial trilogy, cuts even deeper than its predecessors. No, not in comparison or / Nope.STEPH Or anything like that? Like fucking death.GREG Ya know, you swear a lot when you're mad.STEPH Fuck. / SAY IT NOW!GREG Stephanie, stop it or I'll call the cops myself, I will. Greg tries to explain that he no longer lie about Kents affair. Will Pyke in Reasons to be Pretty - Underground Productions. Just ask yourself that question. 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. OK? Greg har planer p att g p college och inser att han inte vill arbeta p ett lager resten av sitt liv. (Holds up list.) On the 11th of May, less than two weeks after losing her final legal appeal, Mrs Diane Pretty died, under sedation and in the care of a hospice. Act Two of Reasons to Be Pretty brjar i lobbyn p en restaurang. 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. I said one little thing. Paralysed by motor neurone disease and unable to take . Leave me be. (Beat.) Wanna get some time in the batting cage / Sure you're OK?KENT Good. When someone looks or acts different from their level of standards, they're quick to judge and criticize. Wear deodorant or perfume. Sexy is often associated with being "hot," that . No, I'm already in the food court. At all?/ You got this far, don't fuck it up now GREG I said No, what I said was, I know what I said now This is it. STEPH, REASONS TO BE PRETTY He hurt me, he really did, you know? / I'm not. You coming to practice?GREG Uh-huh, three-thirty. Scene Four Carly and Greg are hanging out in the break room. He scrambles to get the call before it's gone.GREG Hello, yes? / How I'm feeling about her?GREG No, what? / And roses STEPH No! 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. / Sit down.GREG Thanks. / Terrific GREG tries to read but it's no use. Steph and Greg out of the blue experience one another. Greg frsker ta verhanden och antyder att han kanske berttar Carly sanningen, men Kent tror att han bluffar. They are. Rosewood would feel very different without Ian Harding's Pretty Little Liars character. I am trying to be nice here, to, to, to make up with you or kiss your ass, which is what I figured you were aftergetting on my knees practically to make it up to you but noyou've gotta keep pushing it, pushing me away by saying that we're done and that we're on, what? I don't think this is one bit funny, Greg, and I hope you can see that.GREG I do, I get that STEPH Then good, that's good At least something of use'll come out of this.GREG Is that what you're doing heretrying to make a point or something?STEPH No. www.prettyorphans.com, Tags: Aquila Morong Studio, Los Angeles Theater Review, Lounge Theatre, Neil LaBute, As editor of StageSceneLA.com, Steven Stanley is one of Los Angeles' most prolific theater reviewers. "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 . Greg is a nice guy who has a way of saying the wrong thing without being aware of it. 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?! She's amazing, she is, it's just not, like a, you know some teenager or whatever. Dst knppt Kent, deen fillt datt Greg Gregory ass. 6. Sleep his seat on thy eyelid. (Beat.) Even with all the chocolate on it GREG Huh. Save time with smart copy. 6. The cast of l'obsession de la beaut included Anne-lisabeth Boss, Maude Gigure, David Laurin and Mathieu Quesnel. Two hours, 5 minutes. LaBute is writing some of the freshest and most illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere these days. , Macmillan Code of Ethics for Business Partners. Honey. / Getting her all worked up GREG I wasn't / Dude, I'm CARLY It's not anything, Kent, we just GREG Promise.CARLY Yeah.KENT Fine. / Uh-uh. Your teeth are OKjustbut I don't like your lips at all. I'm very OK with it, believe me GREG Whatever (Beat.) Don't speak for me. / Uh-huh.KENT Seriously! / I'm not making stuff up to delight and entertain you. Before he thumps Kent, Greg clarifies that he is doing it Because you need it, alright? Tell me I'm pretty and no goldfish will get hurt. (Beat.) 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. Act Two of Reasons To Be Pretty beginn an der Lobby vum Restaurant. Her. 3. 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. STEPH watching his every move. Efter att ha verdrivit sin ex-vn lmnar Greg Kent, som raser av ilska. Hon pratar om graviditeten. The savagely comic work of this dramatist and screenwriter whose credits include the plays bash and Fat Pig and the film In the Company of Men has always been more likely to elicit flinching, wincing, recoiling in repugnance and gasping (or smiling cynically) at the perfidy of the human beast. Han kommenterar som inte har sett Kent nyligen. That's shit. Just misses him and smashes against the wall.STEPH It fucking isn't!STEPH storms out, leaving GREG alone in the room. She's a fox (Beat.) Please, just explain that one bit to me and then you can go. Hes kind of a chauvinistic jock and values women only by their appearance. In a, you know, roundabout way CARLY Well, I'd send flowers next time instead, maybe 'cause your communication skills suck. 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. (Beat.) All Rights Reserved. My life.GREG I'm by what? He doesn't stop.GREG watches and shakes his head. This post focuses on the men in the story. / Or your face breaking out.GREG Nice! Wham!GREG No, no, no, no, no, uh-uh, no!STEPH Yes!GREG No, that's not it! So why's it different? It's not my faultI was just going along (Beat.) / That's true GREG And I don't even get what you're going on about What'm I privy to about you? )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 . / Yeah, but not all of me.GREG That's not true STEPH It is. In retail, traders sell items and administrations legitimate Act 2 of Reasons to Be Pretty Reasons to Be Pretty is a hard-edged comedy written by Neil LaBute. Enter Demetrius running, with Helena in pursuit. To watch.KENT See, that's how you do it, man. God STEPH Nope. STEPH angrilypiles her hair into a makeshift bun-type thing.GREG Man, this is you're talking nuts now. / (Beat.) Attractive, I'm saying. Your nostrils make me sick and I always have to look up into them because we have the most unimaginative sex that a person could ever come up with I think you're gay, maybeseriously, you should check into that because you sure have trouble doing it with me and I'm fine. Irgendwie si ofgekillt a wnschen sech gutt an hire Liewe mateneen. He thinks Gregs reading is time wasted. / Do what you gotta do.STEPH Ohhh, you're all Mr. Casual now, is that it?GREG Whatever.STEPH You're such a dick.GREG How do you want me to act, Steph? It does. Et ass d'drtt an di lescht Tranche vun enger Trilogie. He comments that has not seen Kent lately. / God, you are such a prick, Greg GREG And again with the mouth. Why? / Promise.KENT To anybody. Reasons to be Pretty Playbill - Opening Night. no, no, no, no, no! / Ahhhh. If you're meaning tennis.CARLY Yes. The research reviewed by Hamermesh shows that attractive people, both men and women, earn an average of 3 or 4% more than people with below-average looks, which adds up to a significant amount of . / Bionic Woman. Third-shifters.KENT and then what?GREG She left. Thanks.GREG Sure. 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. (Beat.) Before he beats Kent up, Greg explains that he is doing it Because you need it, okay? To search for an exact name or title, use quotation marks at the beginning and end. 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. You know.GREG Who? Door to the kitchen was open. STEPH.GREG stands awkwardly. https://www.act2theatre.org/2013/01/07/auditions/, https://www.act2theatre.org/2013/01/12/meet-pretty-director-beau-bowden/. Even back at school that was true GREG I didn't even think to KENT I'm just saying. Et gouf nominiert fir dri Tony Awards (Best Play, Best Leading Actress, a Bescht Leading Actor). Looking around while he does another quick check of his watch. 1. / Huh.GREG No big deal. Oh yeah!KENT stands, points to a dusty shelf above the cabinets whereseveral other trophies stand. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. So, awake when I am gone. Now what am I?KENT You know what you are GREG No, I don't, I don't know what the hell you're talking about hereacting all goofy since I walked in tonight.KENT Dude, you've got a big mouth, if you must know the fucking details so bad GREG What? The cast included off-Broadway cast members Thomas Sadoski and Piper Perabo joined by Marin Ireland and Steven Pasquale. / Cannot.GREG Why, Steph? He sees that KENT has left his garbagehe scoops all of it up and carries it over to the bin. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom) A federal effort to throw about $40 billion in taxpayer cash at semiconductor manufacturers is now going to double as a backdoor . It's your mom's so I should be kind, but hey fuck that. Maybe she looks at her and thinks, "This dude must be worth it, a woman like that on his arm." Pretty much.KENT Even with the over time GREG Agreed. / Call Steph and make some big ol' CARLY What? Just go back to the house and climb into bed with you, say "I'm sorry" again if you want me to, but crawl in and have you up against me your back against me and I can feel your heartbeat when we get all quiet like that That's what I want.STEPH Oh. Today we announced vertical tabs, a feature that helps you easily find and manage many open tabs at once. She smacks him, at that point similarly as unexpectedly attempts to apologize. Frst hvdar Greg att han inte tror att Kent r otrogen. 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