This needs confessing. Neil LaBute and I have an uneasy relationship. David Mamet - in Oleanna or Boston Marriage mode " also gets under my skin. It's close-run thing: misogyny exposed, or the thing itself? After Fat Pig (2004) and Some Girls (2005), Reasons to be Pretty is the third in LaBute's trilogy of plays about female appearance, and his sixth collaboration with the Almeida.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:04AM on November 18, 2011