reasons to be pretty act 2

Fuck. So, so, so. This is a thoughtful, mature play without the sour superiority or shocking twists and dark revelations that have become formulaic in LaButes work. Han medger ocks att han helt enkelt driver, och att deras fyra r tillsammans kanske aldrig har frvandlats till ktenskap. Just misses him and smashes against the wall.STEPH It fucking isn't!STEPH storms out, leaving GREG alone in the room. You meant it.GREG But I didn't even / Stephanie STEPH And that is why. God STEPH Nope. I'm right here. We can't eat lunch and kiss each other and start blabbing on the phone next week We're done, Greg. It was more of, like, a point of contrastwith you as the good thing.STEPH Huh. / 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. / Whatever.CARLY Yep. (Beat.) Oh, I see (Beat.) When pregnant Carly airs her suspicions about her husband to Greg, he at first tries to stay neutral, then gets trapped by the rules of male loyalty into lying to corroborate Kents alibi. Act Two of Reasons to Be Pretty brjar i lobbyn p en restaurang. (Beat.) I mean, I'm constantly on the alert, either seeing how some dude is eyeing her at a diner or who she seems to be looking atI'm not saying she cheats on me, I'm notbut with a face like that it's hard to believe it's not always up in her head, the idea of being sexy, or at least how she makes other guys feel. She's not coming home now? (Smiles.) In . Neil LaBute Has a Thing About Beauty. I just know that women throw everything they've got into their physical being, and a main part of thatthe main partis the face. Sherecoils and then moves away. Greg apologizes and is very understanding. Sexy is often associated with being "hot," that . Wham!GREG No, no, no, no, no, uh-uh, no!STEPH Yes!GREG No, that's not it! 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. ven om de inte terupplivar relationen representerar karaktrerna i Reasons to Be Pretty en ganska optimistisk syn p relationer och unga amerikaner i medelklassen. So?GREG What? / 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! Reasons to Be Pretty hade premir p Broadway 2008. 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. Will Pyke in Reasons to be Pretty - Underground Productions. 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. Nuts and I dunno. All fake love, with no valid reason to gossip or care about other's. 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. 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. Let's not pretend, OK, 'cause he's being pretty obvious about it (Beat.) "[1], The Broadway production, also directed by Kinney, began previews at the Lyceum Theatre on March 13, 2009, opened on April 2, 2009 and closed on June 14, 2009 after 85 performances. To hurt you, I wrote it down and I read it out loud. They have more children, they get better jobs and they make more money than plain . / What?GREG Just talking! Finally follows.A moment with STEPH.STEPH He hurt me, he really did, you know? / Sit.She digs a bit more and comes up with a piece of paper.STEPH Here. These teeth that're and her lips. 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. / Hmmm? Si huet si Rot. Han tackar Greg fr att han tckte ver sin affr och brjar bertta om sina senaste sexuella bedrifter med Crystal, den "heta tjejen" frn kontoret. 6. Look, don't listen to me, I'm doing OK, I'm just being silly. Suddenly, she is there, right in front of him. Moves toward CARLY.CARLY Is he coming yet?GREG I don't see 'im (Beat.) / Fine.GREG No, not whatever, Steph, it's important. Steph and Greg unexpectedly encounter each other. I am.GREG Steph STEPH Greg GREG I really didn't say anything! At the beginning of the play, he and his girlfriend, Steph, are breaking up because of something he said. / You know I'd do the same for you totally would, and us guys gotta stick together, right? She mistakes his courtship for mockery and tries to elude him. / SAY IT NOW!GREG Stephanie, stop it or I'll call the cops myself, I will. Dude, you seem anxious; I can get outta here if Carly's coming back. In comparison to the protagonist in Fat Pig, Greg exhibits both courage and selflessness by the end of the play. 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. 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! Two days.KENT No?GREG No call, no text, nothing. You like shit, clothes and stuff so you can cook and like that, right? 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. In any case, Greg has had enough. Greg's best buddy, Kent, and Kent's wife, Carly, also enter into the picture, and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. / I barely mentioned you, that's all. But it's not true. / She's ait's basically like being a hall monitor.STEPH Fine then. 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. / Yeah, I'm just yep, yep, yep.GREG What?KENT I dunno. If she shows before I get back tell her I'm in the can GREG I'll probably flower it up a bit, but OK. Fine.KENT nods and gathers up his trash, heading for the door. I'm yeah. Read the full review, Listen, You Brat, to Plain Truths About the Beauty Myth . Carly keeps on forcing him, asking Greg to look at her without flinching and state he doesnt know anything. She's wearing a full security uniformthe works.GREG Kent's using the restroom. (Smiles.) ischtens, datt hien Kent beweegt, huet de Greg erklert datt hien et mcht "Well Dir et braucht, okay? / She can God, I was coming to eat some food, you know? Shit. Something like that. Where do I begin with your nose? "/ I just STEPH Uh-huh. Monologue Master List Women 1. Change is resisted because it can hurt. I want you to tell me! More in sorrow than in anger, and more in annoyance than rancor, it must be said that the talented . STEPH watching his every move. 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. OK? A parking lot. Because she needed someone to talk to today, and GREG Yeah, but wait CARLY because I would never say such a mean and horrible thing to her, that's why.GREG Oh. She leaves, however not before kissing him farewell one final time. As he showed in Awake and Sing! and Dying City, Schreiber has considerable range, bringing complexity to what could have been just another loathsome, LaButean archetype, his personal relationships irredeemably polluted by brutal male competitiveness. Here STEPH Hey. Variety is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Your nose. Your girlfriend cried on the phone to me and it doesn't matter who called who. In Reasons to Be Pretty, Playwright Neil LaBute takes on our ongoing fixation with beauty and one man's inability to say the right thingever. She visits about her pregnancy. 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. (Beat.) Reasons to Be Pretty (stylized in all-lowercase) is a play by Neil LaBute, his first to be staged on Broadway.The plot centers on four young working class friends and lovers who become increasingly dissatisfied with their dead-end lives and each other. Whole deal is square with her, why I don't know. 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. "No one takes me seriously. The result is both absorbing and affecting. / (Pumps his fist.) NYT Critic's Pick. (Yawns.) Huh? In each pair, one note . Though we never learn exactly what he said, it emerges that while concurring with his night-shift buddy Kent (Pablo Schreiber) on the attractiveness of a new girl in shipping, Greg made an unfavorable comparison to Steph. 1. You do not know a goddamn thing to do with me is what I've discovered in my four years with you. She is a knockout, she really is. (Grins.) I'm not kidding around here! Tried to wait but, you know. Han kallar Greg upprepade gnger fr en "fitta". Why?STEPH Because this stuff, all this stuff I said about you? It'll be me this time, OK, not the neighbors! This play was written by Neil LaBute and was first performed in 2008. / I mean a contrast! About you. / 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. / Seriously, Steph, why are you ?STEPH (reading) "Greg, your hair is thinningI'm a hairdresser so I should know. Just CARLY Can we drop it now?KENT 'Course.CARLY Good.KENT It's dropped. "GREG Whatever. (If you are unable to audition on April 20, please contact director Beau Bowden via Facebook ahead of time to make arrangements). Reasons to be Pretty. / I'm sorry, but I'm I'm STEPH What? 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. it's a play about society's obsession with physical appearance and it's effect on the lives of the four people who are the characters in this play.All the characters are ordinary people, people that you know or know of in everyday life. Auditions are coming up on April 20 for our production of Neil LaButes Reasons To Be Pretty. (Takes out a book.) I don't see how you could and, and stillI mean, it just isn't possible to feel that kind of, like, hatredI guess that's what it isand still want to be with a person.STEPH Love is blind, shithead. Different paths or some shitwhat the hell was all that crap? / That's what she does to me.GREG 'S great. (Beat.) / Thanks. Casting is by Donna Morong, CSA. From the moment he sets eyes on Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale), he's hopelessly in love . Maybe it's easier that waytreat you like a preschooler.GREG I don't need anything to be easier, OK, I don't Look, I'm not scared of you or about anything I said because it wasn't a big deal; we had a few beers and maybe we were a bit loud out in the garage where we were talking, but I didn't say shit.STEPH She was in the kitchen, Greg. I jmfrelse med huvudpersonen i Fat Pig uppvisar Greg bde mod och osjlviskhet i slutet av pjsen. Scene One - After the Break Up Act Two of Reasons to Be Pretty starts in the entryway of a caf. Peruse the summation and character framework of Act One. Vad du ska veta om Nora Helmer, huvudpersonen i "Ett dockhem", En nrmare titt p karaktrerna i "All My Sons" av Arthur Miller. It really is. I know I like it, even with you, so I'm guessing it's you. In Underground Productions' most accessible work yet, Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty explores society's obsession with beauty. (Beat.) 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. 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. GREG glances down at hisbook, then over at the door. ", 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. STEPH. / I don't doubt it.KENT Don't need to, I'm telling you she is and she is. Jay Mellman. Huh? / (Smiles.) Which was not meant as any sort of comparison. 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? Keep your damn mouth closed for a minute and listen to me She scrambles into her purse, looking for something. (Beat.) (Beat.) Huh?! [Exit Robin. I'm just, like, totally baffled by this KENT nods and yawnschecks his watch. He over and over calls Greg a pussy. That new girl, up in the shipping department. A slow shake of his head.GREG Oh, boy.At work. 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 ass entschllegt an ass ganz ze verstoen. May 22, 2022. (Beat.) Han betonar att hon har ett vackert ansikte och fr henne att m bttre. / No matter how far back we go GREG I see. An adult having an "adult" version of a temper tantrum (i.e. This is what I wanted. You try and hide it pretty well but I can spot it, at the crown when you're bending over or as you sit in the kitchen eating and you ask me to get up and fix you something, then I see it. 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. Character: Stephanie. / Don't! Tired KENT Steph's her best friend. He prefers to focus on the company softball team. / I am, too! (Slaps heron the butt.) / I mean, boy, if you're looking for things to get shitty then OK, but otherwise I wouldn't say a thing like that, not anything about being psycho or that sorta junk. Until I find a place.GREG So, OK, then. Don't get her all CARLY Greg, don't start GREG Tell me what else you said! Fuckers GREG Uh-huh. I don't remember now. / You fucker GREG I mean it. Scenic designer Adam Rowes ingeniously morphing set (filled with Trish Gallagher Glenn and Maria Nays multiple props) takes us from workplace break room to mall food court to restaurant lobby to baseball diamond in scene changes that might overstay their welcome without the crackerjack team of stagehands that make them happen almost lickety-split, transitions underscored by Mark Tschanzs edgy, cinematic original music. (Beat.) For I must now to Oberon. / No, go ahead, I'm justgo on. Reasons To Be Pretty will be performed by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. Show dates: June 20-23, 27-29, 2013. He scrambles to get the call before it's gone.GREG Hello, yes? Hien Kommentaren, di Kent net mi gesinn hat. Amazing to the touch is all, some, you know a gymnast or one of those cheerleaders, that age. 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. She inquires as to whether Greg was out with Kent and young ladies, yet Greg lies and says that it was simply folks from work. It totally matters. Act 2 of Reasons to Be Pretty Reasons to Be Pretty is a hard-edged comedy written by Neil LaBute. I'm not STEPH And ? 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! However, Greg has had enough. (Pulls a Reader's Digest out of a pocket in his overalls.) 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. Marking the playwrights belated Broadway debut, this lacerating and extremely funny work should appeal to younger theatergoers especially. He dumps ithalf goes onto the floor. It is the third and last portion of a set of three. 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