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`Fat Pig' takes an edgy look at heavy issues (Chicago Tribune)

There are -- when you have the guts to think about it -- very few plays about overweight people. Playwrights will probe our other great societal divides -- race, politics, sexuality -- until the cows come home. But with the exception of the fearless Neil LaBute, whose controversial "Fat Pig" gets a very edgy and provocative Chicago premiere at Profiles Theatre, all run a-feared from the thorny

published Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:35:21 GMT

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[FemmeMode]

I love the theatre...and wish this play - "FAT PIG" was playing here in NYC instead of Chicago....

when I read: ...playwrights since George Bernard Shaw have allowed for class mobility only if the person moving up is thin and attractive. Would Henry Higgins have dated Eliza Doolittle if she weighed 300 pounds? Would he have admitted it to his friends?"

this line kept me reading and made me do a little further research for the play...
Here's what I found:
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"Fat Pig"

Profiles Theatre
4147 N. Broadway

Taunting theater
You last heard it on the playground. Now, "Fat Pig" comes to the Chicago stage. Don't miss the Midwest premiere of Neil LaBute's dark comedy, a provocative tale of a young career guy whose friends brutally critique the plus-size woman for whom he's falling. The play satirizes our obsession with beauty while questioning the strength of human resolve--and of love itself.
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Sounds Interesting huh???

[PeggySue]

Gee, I think we could have written this play.. from the womens stand point....sounds kinda like that movie, Shallow Hal or something like that...Peggy