by Neil LaBute
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In the companion piece to Neil LaBute’s 2009 Tony-nominated reasons to be pretty, Greg, Steph, Carly, and Kent pick up their lives three years later, but in different romantic pairings, as they each search desperately for that elusive object of desire: happiness. World premiere at New York City’s MCC Theater, May 2013.
Praise for reasons to be pretty
“Mr. LaBute is writing some of the freshest and most illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere these days … reasons flows with the compelling naturalness of overheard conversation.…”
—Ben Brantley, The New York Times
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ALSO BY NEIL LABUTE AND AVAILABLE FROM THE OVERLOOK PRESS
Set on Long Island just before the 1929 stock market crash and featuring one of theater’s most commanding female characters, Neil LaBute’s electrifying new adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie captures the timeless consequences of power, sex, and manipulation as servant and mistress of the house face off in a gripping night-long encounter. Commissioned for the 2012-13 season by the Geffen Playhouse.
“LaBute’s view of modern men and women is unsparing … He is holding up a pitiless mirror to ourselves.”
—Jacques le Sourd, The Journal News
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Neil LaBute is arguably the most challenging, provocative, and acclaimed playwright of his generation. Lovely Head and Other Plays brings together his most masterful and affecting recent shorter works.
The title play, which had its american premiere at La mama in 2012, rivetingly explores the relationship between a nervous older man and a glib young prostitute, as their evening together drives toward a startling conclusion.
Also included is the one-act play The Great War, which looks at a divorcing couple and the ground they need to cross to reach their own end of hostilities; In the Beginning, which was written as a response to the Occupy movement and produced around the world in 2012-13 as part of Theatre Uncut; The Wager, the stage version of the film Double or Nothing starring adam Brody; the two-handers A Guy Walks Into a Bar, Over the River and Through the Woods, and Strange Fruit; and two powerful new monologues, Bad Girl and The Pony of Love.
“Neil LaBute is the most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today.”
—David Amsden, New York
“There is no playwright on the planet these days who is writing better than Neil LaBute.”
—John Lahr, The New Yorker
“Mr. LaBute is writing some of the freshest and most illuminating dialogue to be heard anywhere these days.”
—Ben Brantley, The New York Times
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