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Neil LaBute: Plays 3

Neil LaBute

Neil LaBute’s third collection includes Bash, Reasons to be Pretty, Reasons to be Happy, How to Fight Loneliness and If I Needed Someone.

£19.99
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571394036
Date Published
24.04.2025
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Summary

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

NeilLaBute

Neil LaBute received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the Royal Court Theatre, London. He also attended the Sundance Institute’s Playwrights Lab and is the Playwright-in- Residence with MCC Theatre in New York City. LaBute’s plays include: bash: latter-day plays, The Shape…

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