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    Fat Pig: A Play
    Fat Pig: A Play
    Fat Pig: A Play
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    Fat Pig: A Play

    By Neil LaBute

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    Cow. Slob. Pig. 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, finally he comes to terms with his own preconceptions of the importance of conventional good looks. Neil LaBute's sharply drawn play not only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood ideals of beauty but boldy questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateNov 29, 2004
    ISBN9781429998680
    Fat Pig: A Play
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    Neil LaBute

    Neil Labute—an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker—is the author of plays including The Shape of Things, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig, and the Tony Award-nominated Reasons to Be Pretty. He has written and directed films including In the Company of Men (starring Aaron Eckhart), The Shape of Things (starring  Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz), and the 2006 American adaptation of The Wicker Man (starring Nicholas Cage).

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    • 2/5
      Aged badly. Pre-fat acceptance movement, and just comes across as faintly didactic whilst also not quite wholly committing to what it wants to say. A mix of caricature (ex-girlfriend) and attempts at genuinely-sketched characters (protagonist) doesn't work together.
    • 2/5
      Shallow and offensive.
    • 3/5
      Nice dialogue and touches on a really strong emotional truth. One that is still relevant today. But Carter acts as a philosophical foil instead of a human being, and the play takes 3 romantic scenes to finally touch on a conflict you expect from the beginning. The play could start from the final scene.
    • 5/5
      Great story; I love how it was given. Good job writer! If you have some great stories like this one, you can publish it on Novel Star, just submit your story to hardy@novelstar.top
    • 1/5
      This is a very brief, very simply written play about thoughtless idiots. It's not funny, or even provocatively uncomfortable. Being as the purpose in writing it remains elusive, it's difficult to even give it a proper critique. Some things, however, seem fairly clear. In order for the premise of the play to resonate, one must take it as a given that overweight people are inherently disgusting and that overcoming this default assessment requires an heroic and volitional moral choice: all the dramatic tension is dependent upon this assumption. In lieu of accepting that, this play could perhaps work if the viewer at least takes it for granted that people who believe instinctively that overweight people are disgusting are worth taking seriously and having as close friends. That's about as deep as any thinking about this play can really go.

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