Playwright Neil Labute thinks up ‘reasons to be pretty’
PLAYWRIGHT NEIL LaBute is not in the business of writing lovable characters who give you the warm fuzzies. You know you’re watching a LaBute work when instead of a flurry of redemption at the end, you are left feeling as if you just got punched in the gut. LaBute holds a certain pride in this distinction. He was recently in Australia to see a production of his most recent work, "reasons to be pretty." A newspap…