After discussion with your mentor, name one financial aspect, one quality aspect, and one clinical aspect that need to be taken into account for developing the evidence-based practice project. . Greg's best buddy, Kent, and Kent's wife, Carly, also enter into the picture, and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. Kent reluctantly confides in Greg, admitting that he is having an affair with the "hot girl" at work. Sorry! The trio of plays are connected not by characters or plot but by the recurring theme of body image within American society. Greg, Kent and Carly work in a warehouse; Steph is a hairdresser all in their 30s they are trying to come to terms with life in their dead-end jobs. Kent's wife Carly arrives. That's all. She nods her head. 0. Such a snob. It is not. to read our character analysis for Steph and unlock other amazing theatre resources! . That makes Stephanie snap! Just right there, my boyfriend, who's over at the grill and laughing and making burgers for all of us and he was, too. Press Esc to cancel. Wade Bradford, M.A., is an award-winning playwright and theater director. Scene scenario: Steph is confronting Greg after their breakup. What the man thinks is an innocuous comment sparks a fight that leads to his break up with his long time girlfriend. ", Neil LaBute character: "Umm shit, man, I dunno / Fuck, all I'm trying to uh she's a bitch, okay?". One day Greg and Kent are chatting about another good-looking co-worker when Greg offhandedly compares Steph to the good-looking co-worker and calls her regular looking. (Sits forward.) After unleashing more of her anger and rebuking Greg's attempts at reconciliation, Steph demands the keys so she can remove all of her items from their home. Kent es un misgino exagerado casi hasta lo inverosmil. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists, See more characters from Listen to me very carefully, OK, cause Im only gonna say this one time. Why do we feel that way, though, I wonder? He is crude, down-to-earth, and believes that his life is better than perfect. ", Carly harshly criticizes Greg, detailing how upset Steph has become, reacting to his insensitive words. ThoughtCo. Der er gode replikker og elementer i historien og skuespillerne gr det godt, men stykket er ogs dybt problematisk, er p afgrende punkter usammenhngende og nr p ingen mde reelt ind p emnet med nogeninteressante observationer. He not only has a good-looking wife, but he's also tangled in a work-related affair. And yes, over the years it's gotten me things, I won't lie about that, dates and into clubs that I Ive always been that way but its no great big deal to meifanything, its worked against me for most of my life. Incluso, aunque reitera el lugar ms bien absurdo que ocupa la belleza en nuestra cultura, tambin termina asumiendo que su relacin con Steph en realidad no estaba yendo a ninguna parte, con lo que tambin est dndole la razn. so Ive usually got some time on my hands to, you know. Through their break-up and those ever eventful post-breakup encounters, Greg is forced to see the ideology of beauty in a new light along with observing how it influences his friend's relationship. He hurt me, he really did, you know? You But I wouldn't trade her for a million . Describe one internal and one external method for the dissemination of your EBP project results. That her boyfriend thinks her face is \"OK.\" You can't swallow that down and find a way to come up smiling or anything, you know what I'm saying? We can't eat lunch and kiss each other and start blabbing on the phone next week we're done, Greg. That's jerk. Four years . . I just know that women throw everything they've got into their physical being, and a main part of that the main part is the face. Various situations, word choices, and even stage directions give me the unsettling feeling that the women in this play are seen through a lens of intense disregard, while the men are complex and active in the story. Unfortunately, though, his formula and has grown stale and predictable for me. We cant eat lunch and kiss each other and start blabbing on the phone next weekwere done, Greg. Bradford, Wade. More: Buy the Play Despite the things he said, he's still a good guy and he still loves Steph. Join the StageAgent community face, really, not knockout but very OK, yet I never used to even think it to myself, I mean, envision him in that way. . Neil LaBute, Steph is Gregs girlfriend. No copyright infringement is intended. Just as they start to makeup, Greg arrives to hang out and read a book. (Smiles.) I am. After a heated argument, Greg explains he and his friend Kent had a conversation in Kent's garage. Human cruelty is a specialty of Neil LaBute - He finds the cruelty in the smallest gesture or off-hand phrase and amplifies it. She thinks about this for a moment, mulling over what she's just said. I guess that could be part of the message the playwright was trying to convey, by making the characters seem as real and normal as possible, but I wasnt a fan of this portrayal. Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. It apparently backfires on them, but I had heard about the play and seen excerpts from a movie version of it and it made me uncomfortable to have this mirror held up to certain aspects of male-ness, of patriarchy. Plot summary: When Greg makes a seemingly harmless comment about his girlfriend Stephs regular looking face, the information gets back to Steph and sends their relationship over the deep end. Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall. All she wanted was for Greg to own up to his mistake and make up for it. During their conversation, Kent chastises him about eating an energy bar directly after a meal, claiming that Greg will get fat. face like that girl's. Maybe Steph's face is just regular. Cause if she is born like I was, is what Im sayingif she ends up with a face that is some sorta magnet for men, the way Ive been . . I think so. . There are hook-ups and breakups and struggles to keep friendship alive, but this play is mostly about the power of language and listening. I knew of his play In the Company of Men, which I understand was intended to be a black comedy about two guys who are jerks, unhappy with their bad luck with women, who try to torment a deaf co-worker. The trio of plays are connected not by characters or plot but by the recurring theme of body image within American society. Interesting look into a slice of American life. Greg's best buddy, Kent, and Kent's wife, Carly, also enter into the picture, and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. Don't speak for me. (Beat.) (In many ways it is the opposite of Steph's angry letter monologue.) There's something touching about a character struggling to describe the color of a woman's eyes, and coming up with the color of a crayon from "maybe one of those bigger cartons, like, sixty-four colors, with the sharpener in it. A real bother that I dont have any control over. It is funny and shocking and sad all at the same time. from Barry Jenkins. Carly works as a security guard in a warehouse, a job she got because she was pretty, not because she has an aptitude for it. We only provide suggested audition monologues or songs for an individual character if our system finds content that matches a character's traits. Neil LaBute is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright. It just totally hurts if you find out he's not at all into your face, and why that is I don't know, I mean, what a scientist would say about it, those people who are studying human behavior or whatnot Not saying this is full of profound insight or anything but any woman I know, like, my age or younger, she's gonna be super upset if she heard what I did. According to Greg, he replied: "Maybe Steph hasn't got a face like that girl's. throughout the story, she is furious. Greg, sin entrar en el juego, dice que no le importa; que quizs su novia, Steph, tenga una cara regular, pero que an as no la cambiara ni por un milln de dlares. And I looked over to where she was pointing, expecting to see a boy from the neighborhood we know a lot of people, having grown up here since, like, forever and she's pointing at Greg. 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Looks are certainly an issue in the play; just not the primary issue in my mind. Four years that are now goneso totally lost and gone that it makes me cry when I see any little bit from our time together. I should read the others in the trilogy. that are now gone so totally lost and gone that it STOP! Video Examples . ""Reasons to Be Pretty" Act One." Steph Reasons to Be Pretty. And LaBute's preface also struck quite a chord. start over in a serious fashion, maybe in a These people work in factories or as hair dressers or security guards. He goes through a long list of positive details about her physique. He was a great boyfriend to her until he said what he did. You do not know a goddamn thing to do with me is what Ive discovered in my four years with you. together. Kent is a jerk. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! At the end of the scene, Kent makes Greg promise not to reveal the affair to anyone (especially Steph or Carly). Dont try to act like it didnt happen and Im just having a girl thing here because thats not the story, bud. It is not. (Beat.) Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more. Well, the most realistic play Ive read. [Expletive]. Why do we feel that way, though, I wonder? "Reasons to Be Pretty" Act One. There is just no good way to take that! He really is a handsome man," but, see, that still isn't any big deal to me. Like damn bitch why you gotta be throwing pans at someones head thats straight up not okay. Neil Labute's play about a young man and woman whose four-year relationship comes to an abrupt end over a comment he makes about her looks is (in true Labute fashion) heartbreaking, brutally honest and painfully funny. This is an edited/shortened ve. Her letter is a vicious (yet amusing) tirade, detailing all of his physical and sexual flaws, from head to toe. phone or shit. This is an edited/shortened version I performed as an audition piece. 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