Neil LaBute - PLAYS ONE

The six plays in the Collection are:

Filthy Talk for Troubled Time

One of LaBute's earliest plays. A downbeat night at a topless bar exposes the gulf between the twitchy clientele and the waitresses who serve but despise them

The Mercy Seat

This examines a couple who, on the day after a world-changing atrocity, toy with exploiting it to start a new life

Some Girl(s) follows a young writer's panicked retreat from his imminent wedding as he seeks out old girlfriends and opens new wounds

This Is How It Goes

The breakdown of a seemingly successful marriage is complicated by submerged bigotry

The collection also includes two short plays about relationships in crisis - A Second of Pleasure and Helter Skelter - which are in equal part tender and chilling

Together these plays form a complex and compelling portrait of the sexes

Sometimes warring, sometimes loving

But never fully at peace

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