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They keep on joking. Each act centers a different character in a chaotically interconnected foursome: Ciprian the demon twink Trent RamertAdam the alternative cynic Jack OlegDean the himbo Leo Rossmillerand Brad the mainstream mascdaddy Steve Mallers.

Only Ugly Guys depicts a modern social reality where people can be surveilled and then dismissed through a swift block, swipe, or vicious public humiliation. When You Know You’re Ugly: A Gay Man’s Guide to Coping with Physical Unattractiveness Facing the Reality of Physical Attractiveness As gay men, we are seemingly inundated with ideas, images, and pressures about appearance.

They grapple with their desires through sex, drugs, and creatively relentless cruelty.

The show carries no pretense of narrative satisfaction, redemption, or justice for its characters. Farcical plot developments stem from covertly recorded voice memos and unfortunate AI interruptions. Super and a pilot run of an earlier version of Only Ugly Guys.

It exemplifies how much the amorphousness of gay identity owes to a ravenous consumption and regurgitation of media. They owe each other something, if not love. They then undercut their point further by reproducing the very oppressive societal standards their characters lament.

Only Ugly Guys is a four-act psychological sparring match from theater company Running Errands, written and produced by Kurt Engh and directed by Grant Sorenson. Keeping up with your scrolling might help you laugh a little harder at the next show.

The group invites new collaborators in a quarterly short play series at the Hive Collaborative in St. Paul, also titled Running Errandswith their next performance on January They will also stage a new play at the Southern Theater next August. The beauty underneath the ugliness is that the show presents four affecting and dignified gay characters who, through the good, bad, and ugly, don’t discard each other in the end.

Committing to members of their community grants the authenticity they go through such turmoil to achieve as individuals. Once a child of the suburbs, Abraham Teuber is now a bicoastal adult lives in Minneapolis, works in St. He can be found prancing around the lakes, museums, theatres, and dance floors of the Twin Cities.

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And by girls, of course, I mean four grown gay men, in Only Ugly Guysa brutal and deceptively beautiful new play about the absurdity of contemporary queer relationships. The communal response to these moments reminds the audience that the nebulous sense of queer community the characters seek does exist, in little ways, in the room with us.

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