Beauty

Net is having a baby and Riley is getting older and CJ's genetically-determined bone structure makes it biologically impossible for women to find him attractive. This play is about siblings.

Net is having a baby and Riley is getting older and CJ's genetically-determined bone structure makes it biologically impossible for women to find him attractive. This play is about siblings.

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Beauty

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  • Daniel Holzman: Beauty

    This play should be getting produced literally everywhere. It's completely unafraid of it's themes and implications, and yet never falls into the easy trap of arch, forced, edginess. It's a sincere, heartbroken, and often hilarious piece of theater that looks at the state of the world with open eyes. Beauty!

    This play should be getting produced literally everywhere. It's completely unafraid of it's themes and implications, and yet never falls into the easy trap of arch, forced, edginess. It's a sincere, heartbroken, and often hilarious piece of theater that looks at the state of the world with open eyes. Beauty!

  • Anna Item: Beauty

    This play completely took me by surprise and shocked me to my core. It's an uncomfortable, brutally honest look at incel culture, beauty standards, gender, sexuality, Jewish identity, and, of course, siblings. The final image is so haunting and affecting that I'm still thinking about it months after reading. I can't wait to see this play produced.

    This play completely took me by surprise and shocked me to my core. It's an uncomfortable, brutally honest look at incel culture, beauty standards, gender, sexuality, Jewish identity, and, of course, siblings. The final image is so haunting and affecting that I'm still thinking about it months after reading. I can't wait to see this play produced.

  • Shaun Leisher: Beauty

    Plays about estranged siblings reconnecting can seem overdone but Derman finds a way to make it feel so original with this piece. I loved the way that beauty standards are explored in this play. I loved the way these siblings are brutally honest with each other and how much they say to each other without using a single word. Gender and sexuality is looked at in such a unique way here. I loved that Riley is a bi character. We need more bisexual representation onstage. Produce this play.

    Plays about estranged siblings reconnecting can seem overdone but Derman finds a way to make it feel so original with this piece. I loved the way that beauty standards are explored in this play. I loved the way these siblings are brutally honest with each other and how much they say to each other without using a single word. Gender and sexuality is looked at in such a unique way here. I loved that Riley is a bi character. We need more bisexual representation onstage. Produce this play.

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Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Clubbed Thumb, Year 2024
  • Type Commission, Organization Ensemble Studio Theater/Sloan, Year 2024

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