Fat Pig
A Play
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ISBN10: 057121150X
ISBN13: 9780571211500
Trade Paperback
112 Pages
$16.00
CA$22.00
How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus-sized—and then some. Forced to explain his new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny) friends, Tom finally comes to terms with his own preconceptions of the importance of conventional good looks.
Thus LaBute's sharply drawn play not only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood ideals of beauty but boldly questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves.
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Praise for Fat Pig
"LaBute [is] the dark shining star of stage and film morality."—Linda Winer, Newsday
"[LaBute's] view of modern men and women is unsparing . . . [He] is holding up a pitiless mirror to ourselves. We may not like what we see, but we can't deny that—if only in some dark corner of our souls—it is there."—Jacques Le Sourd, The Journal News (White Plains, New York)
"LaBute [is] our American Aesop, a mad moral fabulist serving stiff tonic for our country's sin-sick souls."—John Istel, American Theatre
"There is no playwright on the planet these days who is writing better than Neil LaBute."—John Lahr, The New Yorker
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Fat Pig
"That First Meeting with Her"
A WOMAN in a crowded restaurant, standing at one of those tall tables. A bunch of food in front of her, and she is quietly eating it. By the way, she's a plus size. Very.
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