| Bash: Latterday Plays Contributor(s): Labute, Neil (Author) |
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ISBN: 1585670243 ISBN-13: 9781585670246 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1999 Annotation: With the success of has first two films, In The Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, writer-director Neil LaBute has been hailed as a first-rate dramatic talent with a caustic wit reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick basic collection of three stunning one-act plays that mark LaBute's return to the New York stage after ten years -- forms a trio of unforgettable personal accounts: in Medea Redux, a woman cells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her grade school English teacher: in Iphigenia in Orem, a Utah businessman confides in a stranger in a Las Vegas hotel room, confessing a most chilling crime; and in A Gaggle of Saints, a young Mormon couple separately recounts the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City. All three are unblinking portraits of the complexities of evil in everyday life, exhibiting this writer-director's raw lyrical intensity. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: 812 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.3" W x 7.8" (0.20 lbs) 96 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Neil LaBute burst onto the American theater scene with the premiere of BASH at NYC's Douglas Fairbanks Theater in 1999 in a wildly praised production that featured Calista Flockhart, Paul Rudd, and Ron Eldard. It went on to play at the Almeida Theatre in London and since then has seen hundreds of productions across the U.S. and around the world. These three provocative one-act plays examine the complexities of evil in everyday life and thrillingly exhibit LaBute's signature raw lyrical intensity. Ablaze with the muscular dialogue and searing artistry that immediately established him as a major playwright, BASH is enduringly brilliant--classic and essential Neil LaBute. In Medea Redux, a young woman relates her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her high school English teacher; in Iphigenia in Orem, a businessman confides to a stranger in a Las Vegal hotel room about a chilling crime; and in A Gaggle of Saints, a young couple separately recounts the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City. |
Contributor Bio(s): Labute, Neil: - Neil LaBute's plays include bash, Reasons to Be Happy, The Money Shot, and The Way We Get By. His films include In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Shape of Things, Some Velvet Morning, and Dirty Weekend. Television includes Billy & Billie and Van Helsing. He is a Lucille Lortel Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee and a recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |