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The Ugly One

Play · 120 min. The Ugly (Der Hässliche) by Marius von Mayenburg, directed by Mher Zakaryan. Performed in Armenian with English subtitles. Lette is so ugly that others are trusted to present his own invention, and even his wife avoids looking at his face. Plastic surgery gives him irresistible beauty, bringing fame and success, but soon his new face becomes a product that is copied and sold en masse, and Lette loses his sense of identity. The German playwright's sharp satire is about the obsession with appearance, imposed standards of beauty and the danger of losing one's self. The white…