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Fat Pig
Fat Pig
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Author: Neil LaBute Publisher: Faber & Faber Format: Softcover # of Pages: 112 Pub. Date: 2004 ISBN-10: 057121150X ISBN-13: 9780571211500 Cast Size: 2 women, 2 men
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About
the Play:
Winner of the Outer Critics Circle
Award for Outstanding off-Broadway Play
Fat Pig is a full-length comedic drama by Neil LaBute.
What happens when a young, handsome executive meets the love of his
life and she's more than he ever imagined… about seventy-five
pounds more? In the age of no carbs, nip tucks and extreme makeovers,
can their relationship endure the societal pressures that surround
them?
Fat Pig takes a tough yet humorous look at society's
dependence on the superficial. 'Cow.' 'Slob.' 'Pig.' How many insults
can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you
love? Tom, a young, corporate go-getter, faces just that question
when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who
happens to be "generously proportioned." She challenges his
mind and makes him laugh. Trouble is, his friends are laughing too.
Forced to defend his new relationship and bear the brunt of insults
from this shallow (although shockingly funny) friends and co-workers,
finally Tom must come to terms with his own preconceptions of
conventional good looks. Neil LaBute's sharply drawn,
thought-provoking play not only critiques our slavish adherence to
Hollywood ideals of beauty, but also boldly questions our own ability
to change what we dislike about ourselves. Fat Pig is the
first of a trilogy of plays that continues with The Shape of
Things and Reasons to Be Pretty. America's obsession with
physical beauty is confronted headlong in this brutal and
exhilarating work.
Fat Pig premiered in 2004 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
Off-Broadway in New York City and won the 2005 Outer Critics Circle
Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. It’s UK premier was in
2008 at the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End and was nominated
for Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. The
play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and
workshops and has
been
performed in regional repertory, high school, college, and community
theatre productions.
Cast: 2 women, 2 men
What people say:
"The most emotional engaging
and unsettling of Mr LaBute's plays since BASH... A serious step
forward for a playwright who has always been most comfortable with
judgmental distance." — The New York Times
"One of Neil
LaBute's subtler effort... Demonstrates a warmth and
compassion for its characters missing in many of LaBute's previous
works [and] balances black humor and social commentary
in...beautifully written, hilarious...dissection of how societal
pressures affect relationships... Astute and up-to-the-minute
relevant." — New York Post
"Will make you squirm in your
seat. it's theater without novocaine [from] an author with a uniquely
truthful voice." — The Journal News
About the Playwright:
Neil LaBute is an award-winning American playwright,
filmmaker, and screenwriter. His plays include bash, Reasons to be
Pretty (Tony Award nominated for best play), In a Forest, Dark and
Deep, and Reasons to be Happy. His films include In the Company of
Men (New York Critics' Circle Award for Best First Feature and the
Filmmaker Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and
Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession, The Shape of Things, Some Velvet
Morning, and Dirty Weekend. He is a 2013 recipient of a Literature
Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |
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