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NEIL LABUTE (1963 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Gersh Agency, NY (agent: Joyce Ketay) |
Neil LaBute was born in 1963 in Detroit, Michigan. He is the writer/director of the films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, and author of the stage-plays Bash, The Shape of Things (which he also adapted for the screen) and, most recently, The Mercy Seat. He has also directed the feature films Nurse Betty and Possession, the latter adapted from the novel by A. S. Byatt.
Plays by Neil LaBute
5 Story Walk Up: Seven Card Draw | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Mar 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112474 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Neil LaBute, John Guare, Clay McLeod Chapman, Quincy Long, Laura Shaine, Daniel Levin, Daniel Gallant | |||||
Synopsis: | This is an evening of dark tales about risk and reward, featuring never-before-produced short plays and monologues | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Autobahn | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56548 | |||
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Genre: | collection of One Act Plays | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | comprises of: Funny ; Bench Seat; All Apologies; Merge; Road Trip; Autobahn | |||||
Synopsis: | Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works. Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car.' Be it the medium for clandestine couplings, arguments, shelter, or ultimately transportation, the automobile is perhaps the most authentically American of spaces. In Autobahn, Neil LaBute's provocative new collection of one-act plays set within the confines of the front seat, the playwright employs his signature plaintive insight to great effect, investigating the inchoate apprehension that surrounds the steering wheel. Each of these seven brief vignettes explore the ethos of perception and relationship - from a make-out session gone awry, to a kidnapping thinly disguised as a road trip, a reconnaissance mission involving the rescue of a Nintendo 64 to a daughter's long ride home after her release from rehab. The result is an unsettling montage that gradually reveals the scabrous force of words left unsaid while illuminating the delicate interplay between intention and morality, capturing the essence of Middle America and the myriad paths which cross its surface. | |||||
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Bash | ||
| 1st Produced: | off Broadway, NYC | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571204915 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19889 | |||
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Genre: | Three Plays Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Iphigenia On 0rem/A Gaggle Of Saints/Medea Redux | |||||
| 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 in Orem', a Utah businessman confides in a stranger in a Las Vegas hotel room, confessing to an especially chilling crime. In 'A Gaggle of Saints', a young Mormon couple separately recount the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City. All three are unblinking portraits of the evils that are abroad in everyday life; each is distinguished by the raw and yet lyrical intensity that has become Neil Labute's signature. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Break of Noon, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lucille Lortel Theatre | 22 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | MCC Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2012 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2534-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120970 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In this new play by Neil LaBute, David Duchovny will star as John Smith, a man who, amidst the chaos and horror of the worst office shooting in American history, sees the face of God. Amanda Peet will play two roles in the production, John's wife Ginger and Ginger's cousin Jesse, both struggling to come to terms with the repercussions of John's revelation. A newcomer to faith, John urgently searches for a modern response to the age-old question: at what cost salvation? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chain Play - Production II | ||
| 1st Produced: | Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, Islington, London N1 1TA >>> | 29 Feb 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124145 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Neil LaBute, Abi Morgan, Mike Poulton, Tanya Ronder | |||||
Synopsis: | Written over a three month period, each writer is given two weeks to add a scene of between ten and fifteen minutes before passing the script onto the next writer. Performed for one night only. A fundraising event. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Character | ||
| 1st Produced: | Circle in the Square Theater, New York | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Wrecks and Other Plays" published by Faber and Faber, London Inc, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #80937 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play. - - Gay, one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A comedy club. The man claims it is his first try at stand-up comedy. His attempts are very poor. He admits that he is gay. Then as a punch line claims that he is not and that he really is a stand-up comedian with regular spots at various comedy clubs and has fooled the audience. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Coax | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Wrecks and Other Plays, Faber, London, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78805 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cripples | ||
| 1st Produced: | Clurman Theatre | 22 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129487 | |||
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Genre: | ten min play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Some of Our Parts a program of seven ten-minute plays about disabilitiesand the people affected by them | |||||
Synopsis: | three older men on a park bench discuss making it with disabled women. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Distance From Here, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19890 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Falling In Like | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Wrecks and Other Plays, Faber, London, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78806 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman waits "Wondering what I'm doing here. I'm waiting." Labute pushes the boundaries of love, exploring the extent of what society will accept as opposed to what the heart will desire. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fat Pig | ||
| 1st Produced: | MCC, NYC | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39647 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | '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 Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus-sized - and then some. Forced to explain his new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny) friends, finally Tom comes to terms with his own preconceptions of the importance of conventional good looks. Neil LaBute's sharply drawn play not only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood ideals of beauty but boldly questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Filthy Talk for Troubled Times: Scenes of Intolerance | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014 >>> | 03 Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | MCC Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115080 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sex, sexism, bigotry, and even "Frank f----n' Sinatra" are all given the one-two punch in this finely fused attack on the degraded rubble we sometimes call American culture. This program of short plays written and directed by Neil LaBute is a benefit presentation for MCC Theater. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Five Story Walkup | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13th Street Repertory, 50 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 >>> | 2007 | ||||
Company: | 13th Street Repertory Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84494 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | by John Guare, Neil LaBute, Quincy Long, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Clay McLeod Chapman, Daniel Frederick Levin, Daniel Gallant | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Furies | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #108691 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | charts the trajectory of a couple responding to sudden, drastic changes in their lives | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gaggle Of Saints, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19891 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act. - - Gay, theme/character one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Bash | |||||
Synopsis: | a young Mormon couple separately recount the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Great War, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84200 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of the 30th annual marathon of new short plays | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Helter Skelter | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Dialogue Productions in association with Yvonne Arnaud Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571242221 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69585 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | double bill with Land Of The Dead | |||||
| In a chic restaurant in New York city, a man and his wife meet to take a break from Christmas shopping. He doesn't know that she has already seen him today.Elsewhere in town, a couple part. He goes to the office, she visits a clinic. As events unfold, it becomes clear that this is not just any ordinary day. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In a Dark Dark House | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lucille Lortel Theatre | 2007 | ||||
Company: | MCC Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571248261 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66916 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| On the grounds of a private psychiatric facility, two family members find themselves brought face to face with each other's involvement in their traumatic past. In court-ordered rehab, Drew calls on his brother, Terry, to corroborate his story of abuse. Drew's request releases barely-hidden animosities between the two; is he using these repressed memories to save himself while smearing the name of his brother's friend and mentor? These siblings must struggle to come to grips with their troubled legacy, both inside and outside their dark family home | |||||
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In A Forest, Dark and Deep | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Mar 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571277261 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122230 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Set on a stormy night in a forest, the play tells the story of a semi-estranged brother and sister who meet to clear out a family cabin. Bobby thinks he's simply lending his sister a hand with clearing out her cottage in the forest. But it's a dark and stormy night and his sister has a secret. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 280 | |||||
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In The Company Of Men | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57591 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | in the company of men is a black comedy about a psychological love triangle set within 1990s corporate culture. The story of two white collar-managers, Chad and Howard, who maliciously plot to jointly romance the lonely, deaf, beautiful office temp Christine before simultaneously dumping her, is cool and compelling in its depiction of the worst sorts of emotional abuse. What begins as a cat-and-mouse game of one-upmanship quickly escalates into full-scale psychological warfare, with the woman merely a pawn easily captured and tossed aside in a dark, wicked duel for corporate ascension. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In The Land Of Uz | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432276 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133176 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is a response to the King James Bible book of Job | |||||
| The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken English.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. Each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. Each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. The voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient arts of writing and spoken performance | |||||
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Iphigenia In Orem | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19892 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Bash | |||||
Synopsis: | a Utah businessman confides in a stranger in a Las Vegas hotel room, confessing to an especially chilling crime. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Land Of The Dead | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Dialogue Productions in association with Yvonne Arnaud Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571242221 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66737 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | double bill with Helter Skelter | |||||
| In a chic restaurant in New York city, a man and his wife meet to take a break from Christmas shopping. He doesn't know that she has already seen him today.Elsewhere in town, a couple part. He goes to the office, she visits a clinic. As events unfold, it becomes clear that this is not just any ordinary day. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Liars' Club | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Wrecks and Other Plays, Faber, London, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78804 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Love At Twenty | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13th Street Repertory, 50 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 >>> | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63361 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | The Thirteenth Street Repertory Company presents Five Story Walkup, an evening of new short plays and monologues by some of today's leading dramatists, including John Guare, Neil LaBute, Quincy Long, and Clay McLeod Chapman. The following description is from the show's press release: "Follow the travails of mismatched lovers, a webcam provocateur, small-town philosophers, and urban pioneers as they strive to maintain or escape from their domestic situations. These works cover wide narrative territory, exploring cityscapes and rural settings, but are tied together by an intimate focus on the bond between identity and home." Proceeds from this production will go towards Thirteenth Street Rep's Legal Fund. | |||||
Synopsis: | A college student veers between idolatry and vengeance. | |||||
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Medea Redux | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19893 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Part of Bash | |||||
Synopsis: | a woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her junior high-school English teacher. | |||||
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Mercy Seat, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571211388 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19894 | |||
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| 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 just the day before. 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. | |||||
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Reasons To Be Pretty | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lucille Lortel Theatre | 02 Jun 2008 | ||||
Company: | MCC Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2394-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84329 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| America's obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in this brutal and exhilarating new play. In reasons to be pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhanded remarks about a female coworker's pretty face (and his girlfriend's lack thereof) get back to said girlfriend. But that's just the beginning. Greg's best buddy Kent, and Kent's wife Carly also enter into the picture and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. As their relationship crumbles, their friends are pulled into the fray and all are forced to confront a sea of deceit, infidelity and betrayed trust in their journey to answer that oh-so-American question: How much is pretty worth? | |||||
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Romance | ||
| 1st Produced: | 59E59 Theaters | 30 Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | ThroughLine Artists with J.J. Kandel and John McCormack | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117520 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | part of Summer Shorts 4: This is the annual program of new short plays at 59E59. Featured will be eight world premieres: Jonathan's Blaze by Christopher Stetson Boal, directed by Jose Angel Santana; Play With The Penguin by Roger Hedden, directed by Billy Hopkins; The Graduation Of Grace by Wendy Kesselman, director TBA; Fit by Neil Koenigsberg, directed by Merri Milwe; Romance by Neil LaBute, directed by Dolores Rice; The Expenses Of Rain by Deb Margolin, directed by Laura Barnett; An Actor Prepares by Timothy Mason, directed by Maxwell Williams; Happy by Alan Zweibel, directed by Fred Berner. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Seconds of Pleasure, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | J.J. Kandel and John McCormack | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571221233 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #100952 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | part of Summer Shorts 3 | |||||
| A couple head off for a romantic weekend-or do they? | |||||
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Shape of Things,The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571212460 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19895 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? Such are the painful questions explored by Neil Labute in The Shape of Things. A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath. | |||||
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Some Girl(s) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gielgud, London | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52549 | |||
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Genre: | 100 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | depicts a guy on the brink of marriage visiting a string of jilted ex partners. | |||||
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Some White Chick | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Oct 2009 | |||||
Company: | The Sticking Place | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103498 | |||
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Genre: | short horror play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of Terror 2009, a season of new, short horror plays written by some of our best contemporary playwrights and now in its sixth year, is hosted by Southwark Playhouse for 2009. The evening combines horror, and cabaret as the Grand Guignol tradition is reinvented for the 21st century | |||||
Synopsis: | two American dweebs making snuff movies to release on the internet. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Things We Said Today | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67438 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
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Notes: | part of Ensemble Studio Theatre's 29th annual Marathon-a festival of new short plays from a diverse spectrum of American playwrights | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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This Is How it Goes | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571211555 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39648 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| Belinda and Cody Phipps appear to be a typical American couple: teenage sweethearts now married with children and a luxurious home. Typical except that Cody is in almost every respect an outsider - rich and black and different, in the words of Belinda, who finds herself attracted to a white former classmate who has recently returned to town. As the battle for her affections is waged against a backdrop as seemingly serene as a Norman Rockwell painting, Belinda and Cody frankly question the foundation of their initial attraction, opening the door wide to a swath of bigotry, deception, and betrayal. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Unimaginable, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> | 12 Oct 2010 | ||||
Company: | The Sticking Place and Seabright Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119311 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | part of Terror 2010: Death and Resurrection by April DeAngelis, William Ewart, Neil LaBute, Mark Ravenhill | |||||
Synopsis: | A voice speaks from the darkness, challenging our perceptions of adult responsibility amidst the dangers that the modern world presents to our children. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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War On Terror, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89131 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Part of the Broken Space Season - plays that are performed either with domestic lighting or in semi-darkness | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Wrecks | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Wrecks and Other Plays, Faber, London, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46378 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | a man in his mid-50s is mourning his wife's death. People often gossiped about the age difference between them - she was 15 years older - but Edward Carr didn't care, because "she was worth loving". He won her from her first husband after a fistfight, and they built a profitable business, which he calls his "kingdom", recovering and renting classic cars (the ostensible reason for the title). The sex was always mighty: he never tired of "being inside her". Yes, LaBute's taboo du jour is incest, and the play is a loose adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. | |||||
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