NEWS
-Novaya Zemlya wins Best Play at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival!

-Daniella joins New Perspective Theatre's Womens Work LAB

-Daniella directs for the Play on Words Productions 168 Hour Play Festival Thursday April 25th

UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS

reasons to be pretty
by Neil LaBute
directed by Daniella Caggiano
May 15-19
The Secret Theatre

This spring, Bedlam Ensemble will produce Neil LaBute’s 2008 play, reasons to be pretty, his first to be mounted on Broadway. This third installment in LaBute’s trilogy of plays focusing on our modern society’s obsession with physical appearance (preceded by The Shape of Things and Fat Pig) will be directed by Daniella Caggiano (Outside Providence,ALICE, The Delirium of Edgar Allan Poe). 

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In reasons to be pretty, Greg’s tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female coworker’s pretty face and his own girlfriend Steph’s lack thereof get back to Steph. But that’s just the beginning. Greg’s best buddy, Kent, and Kent’s wife, Carly, also enter into the picture, and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. As their relationships crumble, the four friends are forced to confront a sea of deceit, infidelity, and betrayed trust in their journey to answer that oh-so-American question: How much is pretty worth?

Neil LaBute’s bristling comic drama puts the final ferocious cap on a trilogy of plays that began with The Shape of Things and Fat Pig. America’s obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in this brutal and exhilarating work.