Faber & Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...A Second of Pleasure is one of two short plays about relationships in crisis in Neil LaBute's first collection.  'The play has everything it needs - emotion, surprise, tension - and nothing superfluous to weigh it down. It’s...

Faber & Faber, 2000

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3

...Neil LaBute’s Bash is a collection of three darkly brilliant one-act plays. In Medea Redux, a woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her junior high-school English teacher. In Iphigenia...

Faber & Faber, 2017

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Obsession with surface and secrets runs through this second collection of Neil LaBute's work. In Fat Pig, a man confronts his friends' – and his own – fixation with Hollywood ideals of beauty when he falls for a 'plus size...

Faber & Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Filthy Talk for Troubled Times is one of Neil LaBute’s earliest plays. A downbeat night at a topless bar exposes the gulf between the twitchy clientele and the waitresses who serve but despise them...

Faber & Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Helter Skelter is a short play about a relationships in crisis.  In a chic restaurant in New York City, a man and wife meet to take a break from Christmas shopping. He doesn’t know that she has already seen him today...

Faber & Faber, 2017

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...In a Dark Dark House is a tale of sibling conflict in which estranged brothers must reconcile conflicting memories, after one asks for corroboration of childhood abuse...

Faber & Faber, 2017

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...In a Forest, Dark and Deep is a tale of sibling conflict in which a man's offer to help his sister clear out her cottage brings a terrible confession into the light...

Faber & Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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...A New York couple part. The meeting that she has to attend will lead to a visit into a clinic while his borrowing of cash to go on a bender is at the very least insensitive. As events unfold for the two characters, John Kirk and Miss...

Faber & Faber, 2016

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Three years after a difficult breakup, Steph and Greg are wondering if they can start over again. The trouble is, she's married someone else and he's started a relationship with her best friend Carly. Meanwhile, Carly's ex-husband Kent...

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...In the sequel to "reasons to be pretty," Greg, Steph, Carly, and Kent return a little older, but not necessarily wiser. And don’t worry if you haven’t met them before – there’s more than enough humor and humanity to usher you...

Faber & Faber, 2011

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...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. Meanwhile, Greg’s friend Kent alternates between boasting about how...

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...What does it mean to be pretty? Do you really need someone to validate your appearance? Neil LaBute tackles our obsession with physical beauty head-on in a work nominated for multiple Tony and Drama Desk Awards. Our production, directed...

Faber & Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (6), Female (4), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Some Girl(s) follows a young writer's panicked retreat from his imminent wedding as he seeks out old girlfriends and opens new wounds. Neil LaBute’s play Some Girl(s) premiered in May 2005 at the Gielgud Theatre, London...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (6), Female (4), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...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 office shooting and is subsequently touched by what he believes...

Faber & Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...On September 12, 2001, Ben Harcourt finds himself in the downtown apartment of his lover, Amy Prescott. Over the course of the night, Ben and Amy explore the choices now available to them in an existence different from the one they knew...

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...Desperate times call for desperate measures, and for aging Hollywood stars Karen and Steve that means agreeing to a shocking contractual clause. On the eve of a “climactic” day of shooting, they finally tell their significant others what...

Faber & Faber, 2017

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Obsession with surface and secrets runs through this second collection of Neil LaBute's work. The Shape of Things peels back the skin of modern-day relationships to ask how far someone might change themselves...