Neil LaBute: Plays 3

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Bash

Three darkly brilliant one-act plays, unblinking portraits of the evils abroad in everyday life, first performed in 1999.

Reasons to be Pretty

Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.

'Neil LaBute at his best. It says things about love and betrayal that are rarely put on stage . . . The play has the transfixing nastiness that has made LaBute one of the most disturbing theatrical presences of the last decade. Yet it also has an unexpected ingredient: a beating heart.' Observer

Now collected with its sequel -

Reasons to be Happy

'A richly entertaining shard of tragicomedy.' Daily Telegraph

Author Bio

Neil LaBute received his MFA Fine Arts in dramatic writing from New York University and received a literary fellowship at the Royal Court Theatre, London. He was also Playwright-in-Residence at MCC Theatre, New York City. His plays include bash: latter-day plays, The Shape of Things, The Mercy Seat, The Distance from Here, Fat Pig (nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Comedy), Wrecks, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, Reasons to be Pretty and In a Forest, Dark and Deep. His films include In the Company of Men, Possession, The Shape of Things, Your Friends & Neighbours, Lakeview Terrace and Out of the Blue.