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    <body><![CDATA[This guy just pumps them out... It's true to the LaBute canon - celebrates the uncomfortable and the &quot;now that's just wrong&quot; of our everyday lives. It's good stuff because it doesn't shy away from the dark underbelly of human nature, and our vain, primal, predictable behavior... I thought ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44424937">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have only read a couple of Neil LaBute’s plays, but I have hitherto been impressed with his gumption and his writing. Reasons To Be Pretty, though, left me a little disappointed. In this play, LaBute explores the human fascination with physical beauty.  As with many of LaBute’s plays, there ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34047353">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[LaBute is an interesting writer, and I'd be hard-pressed to think of another playwright who accurately shows how everyday people can chew each other up and spit them out for one reason or another as he does (yes Patrick Marber is great at this too, but his tongue is more advanced than the folk LaBut...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31207023">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Might be my favorite of Labute's plays I've read. The life-(and personality-) changing events that spin out of a seemingly harmless comment seem to happen organically from the characters Labute allows to define themselves in the course of the play, right up to the ending. This is great work.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[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.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Saw this play at the Lyceum last month - going again next month. It really is about &quot;doing the grown-up thing.&quot; Compelling, clever, and funny.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this play mainly because I sympathized with the main character Tom.  The other 3 characters are harder to swallow.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Charged language as always from his pieces. But left me numb. <br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful wonderful wonderful!!  LaBute does such a great job of writing contemporary dialogue.  It all reads very naturally, has some wonderfully funny moments, and it makes you examine why our society is so obsessed with looks.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting play about how much weight a comment to a friend about your girlfriend being ugly can carry.  ]]></body>
    
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