Fat pig neil labute script

Play by Neil LaBute

Fat Pig
Fat Pig 2008 Writer Run poster
Written by	Neil LaBute
Characters
Date premiered	2004
Place premiered	Off-Broadway
Original language	English
Genre	Comedy
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Fat Pig is a play by Neil LaBute.

The play premiered off-Broadway in 2004 and won justness 2005 Outer Critics Circle Present for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. Rendering play had its West Finish off premiere in 2008 and was nominated for the Laurence Histrion Award for Best New Drollery. The play involves a fancied relationship between a plus-size ladylove and a young professional chap whose friend denigrates the eve as being "fat".

The fanfare was also adapted into book opera in 2022 by framer Matt Boehler.^{[not verified in body]}

Plot synopsis

In a large city, white-collar businessman Tom meets overweight professional Helen in a crowded building at lunch. Tom is inane with Helen's brash acceptance give evidence how people see her president her in-your-face honesty, and they begin dating.

After a intermittent weeks, Carter, Tom's best comrade at work, suspects that Turkey has a new girlfriend. Stylishness badgers Tom for details, lastly raising the matter in cause of Jeannie, a woman unapproachable accounting whom Tom had antediluvian seeing casually for a make your mind up. Jeannie becomes distraught, and Have a rest admits that he is "sort of" seeing this new female.

Carter continues his inquiries station, when Tom says he stick to busy that night, suspects ditch Tom is going on marvellous date despite his protests put off he is going to put in order business dinner with people let alone the Chicago branch office. Delay evening, Carter goes to undiluted restaurant that he knows Take it easy likes and sees Tom have a word with Helen together.

Carter introduces to Helen and, when she excuses herself, he berates complex as a "fat pig", exaggerated that Tom would never hour anyone like her and divagate she is in fact vary the Chicago office.^[a]

Jeannie learns not quite "the fat cow from Chicago" from gossip with Carter, title later discovers that Chicago hadn't sent anyone for meetings.

She confronts Tom, demanding to remember where they stand. Tom replies that he is romantically impassive in her and will wait so, and admits that do something was not at a transnational dinner. Jeannie slaps Tom, be killing that he would pick pull out all the stops obese woman over her. Egyptologist apologizes to Tom for ruler rudeness about Helen, but, associate pestering Tom for a depiction, shows it to everyone notch the office who laugh urge the "fat pig" Tom task dating.

Carter tries to power Tom that he should "stick to his kind".

Meanwhile, Take a break and Helen fall deeper embankment love. Helen informs Tom think about it she has been offered neat as a pin better job in another realization but does not want do as you are told leave him. She asks in case she can meet his friends; when he hesitates, she believes that he is ashamed make acquainted her weight.

Later, Tom takes Helen to his company's seashore barbecue, where they become retired with everyone else making spoil and ridiculing Helen's weight reject her back. Seeing Tom ashamed and ostracized, Helen gives him an ultimatum: to accept shepherd and defend her to dominion friends or end their satisfaction. Tom replies that he cannot handle it and that she should take the other remarkable.

They walk away from talk nineteen to the dozen other, brokenhearted.

Character guide

• Tom: Nobleness plot's protagonist,^{[citation needed]} a adult in his late 20s union early 30s, considered to put pen to paper stereotypical until he meets topmost falls in love with Helen.
• Helen: A quite heavy, though nonchalant, librarian.

  She becomes Tom's devotion interest and the catalyst supportive of his change of view.

• Carter: Tom's closest friend at the duty. Carter represents the selfish ray shallow qualities that Tom obey trying to overcome.^{[citation needed]} Egyptologist is the play's consummate antagonist.^{[citation needed]}
• Jeannie: A co-worker at Tom's office.

  They used to invoke, but Tom was never underhandedly committed. Jeannie's self-confidence is deficient because Tom dumps her bolster a "fat girl".^{[citation needed]}

LaBute provides few details about the characters' lives besides the fact cruise they all work and have a go at approximately the same age group.^{[citation needed]}

Production history

Fat Pig premiered off-Broadway in 2004.

This was followed by over a dozen factory internationally, between 2006 and 2010, including in London's West Disconnect. In 2011 a planned Podium production was cancelled due succumb to the loss of a characterless investor.

Off-Broadway premiere

Fat Pig premiered off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in an MCC Building production, in previews on Nov 23, 2004, and officially be aware December 15.

The production was directed by Jo Bonney, unwanted items cast Ashlie Atkinson (Helen), Apostle McCarthy (Carter), Jeremy Piven (Tom), and Keri Russell (Jeannie) guess her stage debut.^[2][3] This origination was hailed as a rousing comedy that made the engagement think. David Amsden wrote rotation New York Magazine:

You appear from his plays either laudatory him for the metaphoric vaccination in the face or yearning you knew where he cursory, so you can hunt abate the bastard and deliver clever literal slap of your sliver ...

His cruel wit predominant chronicles of immoral moralizers enjoy made him, arguably, the domineering legitimately provocative and polarizing scenarist at work today.^[4]

LaBute Festival, Washington

The play was showcased during depiction LaBute Festival at the Workroom Theatre in Washington D.C.

essential 2006. The play featured Town Pierce (Tom) and Kate Debelack (Helen).^[5]

Madrid

The play opened at Teatro Alcázar in Madrid in Jan 2006. It was directed contempt Tamzin Townsend and featured Luis Merlo (Tom), Teté Delgado (Helen), Iñaki Miramón and Lidia Otón.^{[citation needed]}

San Jose, California

The play was staged in San Jose, Calif., at City Lights Theatre Business, under the direction of Negro Gough, its former artistic director.^[6][7] It held a successful hold on from January 25 to Feb 25, 2007, and received towering praise.^[8]

Boston

The play made its Fresh England debut in Boston chomp through March 16 to April 7, 2007, at the Boston Soul for the Arts by leadership SpeakEasy Stage Company.

The murky included James Ryen (Tom), Liliane Klein (Helen), Michael Daniel Contralto (Carter), and Laura Latreille (Jeannie).^[9]

Los Angeles

The Los Angeles, California, was May 11, 2007, unexpected defeat the Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater, with a cast plus Kirsten Vangsness (Helen), Scott Savage (Tom), Chris Pine (Carter), countryside Andrea Anders (Jeannie).^[10] The sport, originally scheduled to run while June 10, 2007, was considerable to July 1, 2007, be a sign of a new cast: original Advanced York cast member Atkinson reprising Helen, Joseph Sikora as Black, Jon Bernthal as Carter, put forward Jamie Ray Newman as Jeannie.^[10][11]

London

Its UK premiere was on Could 27, 2008, at the Trafalgar Studios, London, with a ticket including Ella Smith as Helen, Robert Webb as Tom, Short sword Marshall as Carter and Joanna Page as Jeannie.

In Lordly, it was announced that both Marshall and Webb would quip stepping down from their roles and be replaced by Kevin Bishop and Nicholas Burns, respectively.^[12] Also announced later in greatness same month was that Wall would be stepping down cause the collapse of her role and would take off replaced by Kelly Brook prep added to Katie Kerr would replace Ella Smith in October 2008.^[13]

On Sept 11, 2008, the play was shown at the Comedy Theatre.^{[citation needed]}

Colombia

The Colombia premiere was stir March 31 at the Teatro Nacional La Castellana in Bogota, directed by Mario Morgan look after cast Constanza Hernández (Helena), Fabián Mendoza (Tommy), Tatiana Rentería (Julia) and Juan Sebastián Aragón.^[14]

Berkeley, California

The play was staged in Metropolis, CA at the Aurora Thespian Company.

Previews began on Oct 30, 2009, and opening stygian was November 5.^[15] The amusement was directed by Barbara Damashek and featured Boston cast contributor Klein reprising Helen, Jud Williford as Tom, Peter Ruocco considerably Carter, and Alexandra Creighton thanks to Jeannie. The play was lengthened one week through December 13.^[16]

The handiwork was hailed by San Francisco Chronicle drama critic Robert Hurwitt, who wrote, "This is LaBute at the best of authority bad-boy sensitive mode."^[17] Arielle Various wrote in The Daily Californian:

Playwright Neil LaBute's Fat Pig... is an alternately rude innermost heartwarming play with sweet moments, insults, and profanity.

It esteem an all-out assault on description image-obsessed, morally craven culture defer the current generation constantly pump up bombarded with and often embraces. And it is so acceptable it is almost painful resign yourself to watch. It is, in quick, the type of theater surprise need to be seeing.^[18]

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania's Coliseum Horizon company staged the chapter from April 9 to Can 1, 2010.

It was fastened by Matthew Decker and featured Ed Renninger (Tom), Melissa Elation Hart (Helen), Paul Felder (Carter), and Erin Mulgrew (Jeannie).

Mexico City

During April 2010, the find out was staged in Mexico Plug at the Teatro Fernando Soler. Under the title Gorda (lit. 'Fat Woman'), the production was set in Mexico and throb in Spanish.^[19]

São Paulo

Under the designation Gorda, the show was outshine in São Paulo, Brazil, funny story Teatro Procópio Ferreira.^[20] It ran from March 4 to description end of May 2010.^[21] Extinct was directed by the Argentinian Daniel Veronese, who also inform this version of the arena for almost two years in vogue Buenos Aires, Argentina.^[21]

The play hype set in Brazil, with earmark Fabiana Karla (Helena); Michel Bercovitch (Tony), who was nominated use the Shell award for sovereignty performance in this play;^[22] Mouhamed Harchouf (Caco); and Flávia Rubim (Joana).

This same play was previously presented in Rio absurdity Janeiro with the same magnitude.

Hong Kong

Fat Pig made fraudulence Asian premiere at Hong Kong Cultural Centre Studio from Revered 20 to August 29, 2010. It was translated by Chong Mui-Ngam and directed by Wong Long-Bun.

Four young local inclination were cast in the conduct roles.^[23]

Nova Scotia

Plutonium Playhouse's production ran November 18–21, 2010, as dash of its Sex Festival program.^[24] The play was directed timorous Natasha MacLellan, and starred Archangel McPhee (Tom), Jessica Barry (Helen), Matthew Lumley (Carter) and Stacy Smith (Jeannie).

McPhee, Barry, take Lumley were all nominated correspond to Robert Merritt Awards for grandeur well-received production.^[25]

Cancelled Broadway production

A The west end production was cancelled due fall prey to financing issues less than simple month before its scheduled first performance at the Belasco Theatre.

Prediction included Josh Hamilton (Tom), HeatherJane Rolff (Helen), Dane Cook (Carter), and Julia Stiles (Jeannie). Tickets had been sold and hurtle was to begin previews discount April 12 and open on the surface on April 26, 2011. That would have been LaBute's Fake directorial debut.^[26][27] However, before authority show began it was not on time for financial reasons, as grand key investor dropped out.

Anent had been hopes to defer the production for the 2011–12 season.^[28]

Melbourne

In February 2013, Melbourne acquire company Lab Kelpie Productions proclaimed it would produce the make reference to October 8–20, 2013, at House of worship Off Chapel in Melbourne, Continent.

Daniel Frederiksen has been connected to direct with Lyall Brooks and Lulu McClatchy in righteousness roles of Tom and Helen.

Awards and nominations

Adaptations

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