Helen is a librarian, smart, witty and extremely generously built. When she encounters corporate hot-shot Tom at a lunch bar, she allows herself to consider that perhaps ... But enough about Helen, because despite the title, this play isn’t about her. It’s about Tom, about his awkwardness at falling for a tubby woman and the peer pressure put on him.

It is increasingly typical of Neil LaBute to offer a protagonist who hurts another and feels really bad about it, yet not particularly to care about showing us the victim’s point of view as well as the perpetrator’s. In the final image of the play, Tom has just succumbed to hassle from co-workers and dumped Helen; she, who has been distinctly the more articulate until the final few minutes, sits dumbstruck while he cries copiously.