Photo Flash: Mad Horse Theatre Stages REASONS TO BE PRETTY
By: Julie Musbach Mar. 14, 2018
Mad Horse Theatre Company explores the power of words; their capacity to hurt, to heal, to deceive and to expose the illusions and fragility of love and romance in their March production of Neil LaBute's REASONS TO BE PRETTY.
A man's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remark about a female coworker's pretty face vs. his own girlfriend's "regular" one, gets back to her. His best buddy, and his buddy's wife, also enter into the picture, creating an emotional equation that becomes increasingly more complicated and painful. Neil LaBute is one of our finest contemporary American Playwrights; his razor-sharp dialogue lends power, poignancy and humor to the chaos of crumbling relationships, and four friends are forced to confront deeply uncomfortable truths in answering that oh-so-American question: How much is pretty worth? Nominated for both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Play, REASONS TO BE PRETTY explores our modern obsession with physical appearance and how ordinary people cope at the point in their lives where dreams begin to fade. Director Christopher Price says:"I'm drawn to this play, and LaBute's work in general, because of his extraordinary ability to create such real characters.They speak with an awkwardness, a normalcy that rings true. We, the audience, gain incite into their insecurities and suppressed longings through their inarticulateness. We observe them thrash around and understand them before they understand themselves. This is, to me, a coming of age story in which the question of how physical beauty impacts our lives is merely the jumping off point."
Photo Credit: Craig Robinson
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