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Bash Latterday Plays [Paperback]

Neil Labute (Author)
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March 2001 0571204910 978-0571204915
A trio of brilliantly scathing plays by the renowned writer-director of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors.

With the success of his 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. bash--a 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 tells 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 LaBute's signature raw lyrical intensity.

"The most important playwright to emerge in a decade."-- John Lahr, The New Yorker

"A transfixing evening."-- Ben Brantley, The New York Times
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Neil LaBute is a playwright and filmmaker whose plays include Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, Sanguinarians & Sycophants, Rounder, and Ravages, along with adaptations of Woyzeck and Dracula. His feature film debut, In the Company of Men, received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Feature and the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival. He recently completed his third feature film, Nurse Betty. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd (March 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0571204910
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571204915
  • Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.7 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,734,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Neal LaBute's most recent works for the stage include This Is How It Goes (Faber, 2005) and Fat Pig (Faber, 2004), which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off Broadway Play.

 

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Important Play, August 14, 2001
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Marc E. Shaw (Santa Barbara, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bash: three plays (Paperback)
I have had the opportunity to direct this play twice in the past two years (once it was just one of the three plays), and I just can't say enough about how powerful it is. Critics of Labute say he is a mental rapist who is too dark. Read the newspapers and read this play and you will see that this isn't fiction. Like much great theatre it comments on our society and gives us pause. The characters and their situations are memorable, and Labute is a talented, tight writer.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Still Shaken, October 22, 2000
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This review is from: Bash: three plays (Paperback)
I saw this play last night and am eagerly awaiting it to be in stock again so I can buy it. Like some other reviewers here, I too am struggling for adjectives: brilliant is the best that I can do. It's written almost tenderly-- there is no contempt for these characters although what they do does not merit our love-- and it's written incredibly honestly. It's not at all sentimental, and you will step away from it shaken. Step into this world where celebration and violence are blurred as well as the title promises.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you, Mr. Labute!, December 16, 1999
This review is from: Bash: three plays (Paperback)
I just put down "Bash" after picking it up an hour ago... was it worth buying?... you better believe it!

Gripping is not strong enough a word to describe this play of extreme violence and dark wit. Brilliant perhaps leaves a better taste in ones mouth. Mr. Labute writes with the lyric power of Vladimir Nabokov and dramatic strength of (dare I say it) William Shakespeare. Labute is the best new playwright on Broadway since Arthur Miller (in the 50s), and "Bash" is the perfect mode through which Labute is able to tell his stories.

My favorite of the one-acts is "A Gaggle of Saints," a dynamic character study that leaves you both spiting and pitying the male lead... Grrr! I still can't get over it! I want more!

I only wish I went to see "Bash" when it was on Broadway this summer... oh well, I have it year-round now!

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