Neil Labute

Author : Gerald C. Wood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135866961
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neil LaBute written by Gerald C. Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil LaBute: A Casebook is the first book to examine one of the most successful and controversial contemporary American playwrights and filmmakers. While he is most famous, and in some cases infamous, for his early films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, Labute is equally accomplished as a playwright. His work extends from the critique of false religiosity in Bash to examinations of opportunism, irresponsible art, failed parenting, and racism in later plays like Mercy Seat, The Shape of Things, The Distance From Here, Fat Pig, Autobahn, and the very recent This Is How It Goes and Some Girls. Like David Mamet, an acknowledged influence on him, and Conor McPhereson, with whom he shares some stylistic and thematic concerns, LaBute tends to polarize audiences. The angry voices, violent situations, and irresponsible behavior in his works, especially those focusing on male characters, have alienated some viewers. But the writer's religious affiliation and refusal to condone the actions of his characters suggest he is neither exploitive nor pornographic. This casebook explores the primary issues of the writer's style, themes, and dramatic achievements. Contributors describe, for example, the influences (both classical and contemporary) on his work, his distinctive vision in theater and film, the role of religious belief in his work, and his satire. In addition to the critical introduction by Wood and the original essays by leading dramatic and literary scholars, the volume also includes a bibliography and a chronology of the playwright's life and works.

Author : Neil LaBute
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822233991
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way We Get By written by Neil LaBute and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Beth and Doug, two people who have no problems getting dates with their partners of choice. After a drunken party and a hot night, they wake up to a blurry morning where the rules of attraction, sex, and society are waiting for them before their first cup of coffee. It’s very awkward—and it also leads the pair to ponder how much they really know about each other, and how much they really care about what other people think. THE WAY WE GET BY is a play about love and lust and the whole damn thing.

Author : Neil LaBute
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802199194
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seconds of Pleasure written by Neil LaBute and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from the award-winning director and playwright. “Labute’s smart, edgy offering delivers pleasures well beyond the time frame his title suggests.”—Booklist In Seconds of Pleasure, Neil LaBute brings to the page his cutting humor and compelling take on the shadowy terrain of the human heart. Best known for his controversial plays and films, his short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Playboy. Seductive and provocative, each potent and pithy tale in Seconds of Pleasure finds men and women exploiting—or at the mercy of—the hidden fault lines that separate them: In “Time Share,” a woman leaves her family at their vacation home after discovering her husband in a compromising situation; a middle-aged man obsesses over a scab on the calf of a pretty young girl in “Boo-Boo”; and a vain Hollywood actor gets his comeuppance in “Soft Target.” LaBute infuses Seconds of Pleasure with his trademark wit and black humor and unleashes his imagination in stories that offer unflinching insight into our very human shortcomings and impure urges with shocking candor. “LaBute’s usual sleazy suspects are prepared to risk family, love, career, and freedom for the momentary satisfaction of their sometimes brutal desires. It will end badly, we know, and that’s what makes each dark tale as irresistible as good gossip. Fallibility and weakness, LaBute has demonstrated once again, have their own allure.”—Black Book “Seconds captures in print both the nuanced rhythms of contemporary speech and the pitfalls of dark I-Me-Mine gratification.”—LA Weekly “LaBute is a master at crafting shocking situations and nasty characters.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : Neil LaBute
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822225348
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Break of Noon written by Neil LaBute and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Amidst the chaos and horror of the worst office shooting in American history, John Smith sees the face of God. His modern-day revelation creates a maelstrom of disbelief among everyone he knows. A newcomer to faith, John urgently searche

Author : Neil LaBute
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468304054
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Distance from Here written by Neil LaBute and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2003-03-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors both gained critical renown for their biting satire and caustic wit. Now, with The Distance from Here, he has written his most riveting play yet, an intense look at the dark side of American suburbia. With little to occupy their time other than finding a decent place to hang out—the zoo, the mall, the school parking lot—Darrell and Tim are two American teenagers who lack any direction or purpose in their lives. When Darrell’s suspicion about the faithlessness of his girlfriend is confirmed and Tim comes to her defense, there is nothing to brake their momentum as all three speed toward disaster.

Author : Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521712859
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neil LaBute written by Christopher Bigsby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil LaBute is one of the most exciting new talents in theatre and film to have emerged in the 1990s. Influenced and inspired by such writers as David Mamet, Edward Bond and Harold Pinter, he is equally at home writing for the screen as for the stage, and the list of films he has written and directed includes The Wicker Man (2006), Possession (2002) and In the Company of Men (1998). As a playwright, screenwriter, director, and author of short stories, he has staked out a distinctive, and disturbing, territory. In the first full-length study on LaBute, Christopher Bigsby examines his darkly funny work which explores the cruelties, self-concern and manipulative powers of individuals who inhabit a seemingly uncommunal world. Individual chapters are dedicated to particular works, and the book also includes an interview with LaBute, providing a fascinating insight into the life of this influential and often controversial figure.

Author : Neil LaBute
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429996463
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wrecks written by Neil LaBute and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 nature. Meet Edward Carr: loving father, successful businessman, grieving widower. In this concise powerhouse of a play, LaBute limns the boundaries of love, exploring the limits of what society will accept versus what the heart will desire. This collection also features rarely staged short plays, including "Liars' Club," "Coax," and the never-before-seen "Falling in Like."

Author : Neil LaBute
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822223948
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reasons to be Pretty written by Neil LaBute and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A love story about the impossibility of love, REASONS TO BE PRETTY introduces us to Greg, who really, truly adores his girlfriend, Steph. Unfortunately, he also thinks she has a few physical imperfections, and when he casually mentions t

Author : Neil LaBute
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429998687
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fat Pig written by Neil LaBute and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2004-11-29 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 he 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 boldy questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves.

Author : Neil LaBute
Publisher : Faber & Faber Plays
ISBN 13 : 0571212468
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Things written by Neil LaBute and published by Faber & Faber Plays. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The world premi re of The Shape of Things was presented at the Almeida, London, in May 2001.