He’s Just Not Himself Anymore. Isn’t It Great?
CHARLES ISHERWOODFebruary 7, 2012: The familiar bromide that looks aren’t everything is eviscerated with blunt brevity in “The Ugly One,” a black comedy by the German playwright Marius von Mayenburg that is making its New York premiere at Soho Rep. The unprepossessing fellow referred to in the title, an engineer who invents plugs for a living, gradually loses both his sense of self and maybe his soul when a miracle of plastic surgery turns him into a nouveau Apollo.
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