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Neil Labute
St. Louis Actors' Studio (STLAS) and esteemed film director, screenwriter and playwright Neil LaBute publish a new book, "Unlikely Japan and Other Plays: Ten One-Acts from Ten Years of the…
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Gerald C. Wood
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Examines one of the most successful and controversial contemporary American playwrights and filmmakers. This book explores the primary issues of LaBute’s style, themes, and dramatic achievements. It describes the influences…
Christopher Bigsby (University of East Anglia)
Neil LaBute - playwright, screenwriter, director and author of short stories - is one of the most exciting new talents in theatre and film. In the first full-length study of…
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Staged on continually shifting moral ground that challenges our received notions about gender, ethnicity, and even love itself, This is How It Goes unblinkingly explores the myriad ways in which…
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Belinda and Cody Phipps appear to be a typical Midwestern couple: teenage sweethearts, children, luxurious home. Typical, except that Cody is black - ‘rich, black, and different’, in the words…
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Two brothers meet on the grounds of a private psychiatric facility. Drew, has been court-confined for observation and has called his older brother, Terry, to corroborate his claim of childhood…
Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancee is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side - so what is your natural…
How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright…
LaBute, in his most ambitious an best play to date, gets inside the emptiness of American culture, the masquerade and the evil of neglect. THE DISTANCE FROM HERE, it seems…
Evil wears an all-American glow in Neil LaBute’s BASH: LATTERDAY PLAYS … The characters in this transfixing evening of monologues have that sheen of idealized, corn-country wholesomeness that Madison Avenue…
In this play, LaBute presents the brutal realities of the war between the sexes and explores whether one can be truly opportunistic in a time of universal selflessness.
Velvet is enjoying a relaxing morning at home when Fred arrives on the doorstep of her New York City brownstone, suitcases in tow.
David Schwimmer stars in this West End production of Neil LaBute’s play Some Girl(s), which previews from 12 May 2005 at the Gielgud Theatre.
The new edition of three brilliantly scathing plays featuring dual covers, a man and a woman, from Robert Longo’s acclaimed Men in the Cities series
Everyone falls in love with his or her therapist at least a little. But what happens when the therapist not only loves you back but also acts upon it? This…
Betty and Bobby are sister and brother, but they have little in common.
Neil LaBute is arguably the most challenging, provocative, and acclaimed playwright of his generation. Lovely Head and Other Plays brings together his most masterful and affecting recent shorter works.
Reasons to Be Happy is the companion piece to Neil LaBute’s widely praised, 2009 Tony-nominated reasons to be pretty.
Karen and Steve are glamorous movie stars with one thing in common: desperation.
Neil LaBute is one of America’s most provocative and lauded playwrights, and his darkly exhilarating talent is on glorious view in this new collection.
Meet Beth and Doug: two people who have no problem getting dates with their partners of choice.
Neil LaBute has earned international acclaim for hisprovocative body of work for the stage. His bold vision is amply evident inthis new collection of daring and stylishly realized short plays…
Compelling … a bleak vision redolent of classical tragedy. -Financial Times
Intense, funny, and touching … -Jennifer Farrar, Associated Press (Reasons To Be Happy)
Presents tales of men behaving badly towards women.
It was so simple, just a few little bits in his diary, files that he kept in longhand with all his thoughts and wishes and dreams. Bobby thinks he’s simply…
‘Cow.’ ‘Slob.’ ‘Pig.’ How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for…
A trio of brilliantly scathing plays by the renowned writer-director of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors.
What if God told you to be a better person but the world wouldn’t allow it? Such is the dilemma facing Joe Smith, a run-of-the-mill white-collar businessman who survives an…
In Seconds of Pleasure, acclaimed award-winning director and playwright Neil LaBute, brings to the page his cutting humor and compelling take on the shadowy terrain of the human heart. Best…
Can someone honestly love a person whom they have deceived for thirty years? This is the central question behind Wrecks, Neil LaBute’s latest foray into the dark side of human…
Greg is overheard admitting that his girlfriend Steph is no beauty, but that he wouldn’t change her for the world. She is devastated; he can’t see what he’s done wrong…
‘LaBute takes us to shadowy places we don’t like to talk about, sometimes even to think about.’ Newsday
Obsession with surface and secrets runs through this second collection of Neil…
The collection also includes two short plays about relationships in crisis - A Second of Pleasure and Helter Skelter - which are in equal part tender and chilling. Together these…
‘Autobahn’ was originally produced as a staged reading, MCC Theater –Back of contents page.
Staged on continually shifting moral ground that challenges our [perceived] notions about gender, ethnicity, and even love itself, [this play] unblinkingly explores the myriad ways in which the wild card…
Ayoung wife with cancer and her husband seek a third party to help them out withsomething they can’t quite manage themselves, in Neil LaBute’s affecting andutterly surprising new play.
An award-winning play from Neil LaBute that first staged on Broadway in 2009
In a modern version of Adam’s seduction by Eve, this play pits gentle, awkward, overweight Adam against experienced, analytical, amoral Evelyn, a graduate student in art.
Brothers Terry and Drew are worlds apart. The extraordinary circumstances of their reunion force them to relive the carefully forgotten memories of their childhood. An encounter with a pretty girl…
How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? This title explores such painful questions.
This collection includes one full-length play, WRECKS, and seven short plays, COAX, FALLING IN LIKE, LAND OF THE DEAD, LIARS CLUB, LOVE AT TWENTY, STAND-UP, and UNION SQUARE. WRECKS: Can…
