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In All The Ways To Say I Love You, Neil LaBute's "haunting, heartrending? (AP) new play, Mrs. Johnson is a high school English teacher in a loving marriage. As she recounts her experiences with a favored student from her past, Mrs. Johnson slowly reveals the truth that is hidden just beneath the surface details of her life, in this riveting solo play about love, hard choices, and the cost of fulfilling an all-consuming desire. Two-time Tony winner Judith Light originated the role of Mrs. Johnson in a "full-throttle performance? (Time Out NY) for the twice-extended Off Broadway premiere, at MCC in fall 2016.Also included is All My White Sins Forgiven, the evocative one-act companion play that gives depth and context to All The Ways To Say I Love You. In this engrossing two-hander, Mrs. Johnson's husband, Eric, and his friend Todd banter, shoot hoops, and work their way around to talking some truth about their lives, their marriages, their children, and their own secrets and dreams. Rounding out the volume and an inspiration for the two plays is the short story "With Hair of Hand-Spun Gold,? a masterfully crafted piece of prose that is pure Neil LaBute-as dark and timeless as any Grimm's fairytale yet as chillingly modern as a teenage girl chatting with an anonymous new "friend? on the Internet.

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	27 décembre 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781468316520
Langue	English

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PRAISE FOR THE PLAYS OF NEIL LABUTE
ALL THE WAYS TO SAY I LOVE YOU
Compelling a bleak vision redolent of classical tragedy.
-Max McGuinness , Financial Times
LaBute s hour-long monologue is haunting To say more is to spoil his perfect ending.
-David Finkle , The Huffington Post
A creeping primal darkness ensnares us in what appears to be an ordinary life.
-Linda Winer , Newday
Beware of any mentions of Reasons to be Happy in Neil LaBute s dark new play a wrenching solo monologue unsettling to the haunting, heartrending end.
- Jennifer Farrar , The Associated Press
A densely plotted sonata a portrait of a woman reckoning, without apology or deflection, with a decision that has defined her life.
-Jason Fitzgerald , The Village Voice
THE WAY WE GET BY
It s sexy, it s starry dangerously irresistible.
-Ben Brantley , The New York Times
The Way We Get By has an unexpected sweetness, along with a twist.
-Jennifer Farrar , The Associated Press
The Way We Get By feels like a refreshingly sunnier and more hopeful LaBute, with moments that feel suspiciously like giddy joy.
-Sara Vilkomerson , Entertainment Weekly
Viscerally romantic, almost shockingly sensitive, even, dare we say it, sweet LaBute dares here to explore less obviously explosive territory. Yet, somehow, this daring feels deep.
-Linda Winer , Newsday
THE MONEY SHOT
A wickedly funny new comedy.
-Jennifer Farrar , The Associated Press
An acid-tongued showbiz satire.
-Scott Foundas , Variety
Fresh, joyously impolite a good and mean little farce.
-Linda Winer , Newsday
100 minutes of rapid-fire bursts of raucous laughter.
-Michael Dale , BroadwayWorld
Packs a stunning amount of intelligence into 100 minutes of delectable idiocy.
-Hayley Levitt , TheaterMania
Consistently entertaining To his credit, LaBute does not aim for the obvious metaphor: in showbiz, everyone gets screwed. He is more concerned with amusing us.
-Brendan Lemon , Financial Times
REASONS TO BE HAPPY
Mr. LaBute is more relaxed as a playwright than he s ever been. He is clearly having a good time revisiting old friends you re likely to feel the same way the most winning romantic comedy of the summer, replete with love talk, LaBute-style, which isn t so far from hate talk
-Ben Brantley , The New York Times
These working-class characters are in fine, foul-mouthed voice, thanks to the scribe s astonishing command of the sharp side of the mother tongue. But this time the women stand up for themselves and give as good as they get.
-Marilyn Stasio , Variety
LaBute has a keen ear for conversational dialogue in all its profane, funny and inelegant glory.
-Joe Dziemianowicz , New York Daily News
LaBute nails the bad faith, the grasping at straws, the defensive barbs that mark a tasty brawl.
-Elisabeth Vincentelli , New York Post
Intense, funny, and touching In following up with the lives of his earlier characters, LaBute presents another compassionate examination of the ways people struggle to connect and try to find happiness.
-Jennifer Farrar , The Associated Press
Terrifically entertaining.
-Philip Boroff , Bloomberg
A triumph always electric with life. LaBute has a terrific way of demonstrating that even in their direst spoken punches fighting lovers are hilarious. completely convincing.
-David Finkle , Huffington Post
REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Mr. LaBute is writing some of the freshest and most illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere these days Reasons flows with the compelling naturalness of overheard conversation. It s never easy to say what you mean, or to know what you mean to begin with. With a delicacy that belies its crude vocabulary, Reasons to be Pretty celebrates the everyday heroism in the struggle to find out.
-Ben Brantley , The New York Times
There is no doubt that LaBute knows how to hold an audience. LaBute proves just as interesting writing about human decency as when he is writing about the darker urgings of the human heart.
-Charles Spencer , Telegraph
Funny, daring, thought-provoking
-Sarah Hemming , Financial Times
IN A DARK DARK HOUSE
Refreshingly reminds us that [LaBute s] talents go beyond glibly vicious storytelling and extend into thoughtful analyses of a world rotten with original sin.
-Ben Brantley , The New York Times
LaBute takes us to shadowy places we don t like to talk about, sometimes even to think about
-Erin McClam , Newsday
WRECKS
Superb and subversive A masterly attempt to shed light on the ways in which we manufacture our own darkness. It offers us the kind of illumination that Tom Stoppard has called what s left of God s purpose when you take away God.
-John Lahr , The New Yorker
A tasty morsel of a play The profound empathy that has always informed LaBute s work, even at its most stringent, is expressed more directly and urgently than ever here.
-Elysa Gardner , USA Today
Wrecks is bound to be identified by its shock value. But it must also be cherished for the moment-by-moment pleasure of its masterly portraiture. There is not an extraneous syllable in LaBute s enormously moving love story.
-Linda Winer , Newsday
FAT PIG
The most emotionally engaging and unsettling of Mr. LaBute s plays since bash A serious step forward for a playwright who has always been most comfortable with judgmental distance.
-Ben Brantley , The New York Times
One of Neil LaBute s subtler efforts Demonstrates a warmth and compassion for its characters missing in many of LaBute s previous works [and] balances black humor and social commentary in a beautifully written, hilarious dissection of how societal pressures affect relationships [that] is astute and up-to-the-minute relevant.
-Frank Scheck , New York Post
THE DISTANCE FROM HERE
LaBute gets inside the emptiness of American culture, the masquerade, and the evil of neglect. The Distance From Here , it seems to me, is a new title to be added to the short list of important contemporary plays.
-John Lahr , The New Yorker
THE MERCY SEAT
Though set in the cold, gray light of morning in a downtown loft with inescapable views of the vacuum left by the twin towers, The Mercy Seat really occurs in one of those feverish nights of the soul in which men and women lock in vicious sexual combat, as in Strindberg s Dance of Death and Edward Albee s Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf .
-Ben Brantley , The New York Times
A powerful drama LaBute shows a true master s hand in gliding us amid the shoals and reefs of a mined relationship.
-Donald Lyons , New York Post
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
LaBute continues to probe the fascinating dark side of individualism [His] great gift is to live in and to chronicle that murky area of not-knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying.
-John Lahr , The New Yorker
LaBute is the first dramatist since David Mamet and Sam Shepard-since Edward Albee, actually-to mix sympathy and savagery, pathos and power.
-Donald Lyons , New York Post
Shape is LaBute s thesis on extreme feminine wiles, as well as a disquisition on how far an artist can go in the name of art Like a chiropractor of the soul, LaBute is looking for realignment, listening for a crack.
-John Istel , Ell e
BASH
The three stories in bash are correspondingly all, in different ways, about the power instinct, about the animalistic urge for control. In rendering these narratives, Mr. LaBute shows not only a merciless ear for contemporary speech but also a poet s sense of recurring, slyly graduated imagery darkly engrossing.
-Ben Brantley , The New York Times
NEIL LABUTE is an award-winning playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter. His plays include: bash , The Shape of Things , The Distance From Here , The Mercy Seat , Fat Pig (Olivier Award nominated for Best Comedy), Some Girl(s) , Reasons to be Pretty (Tony Award nominated for Best Play), In a Forest, Dark and Deep , a new adaptation of Miss Julie , and Reasons to be Happy. He is also the author of Seconds of Pleasure , a collection of short fiction, and a 2013 recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Neil LaBute s film and television work includes In the Company of Men (New York Critics Circle Award for Best First Feature and the Filmmaker Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and Neighbors , Nurse Betty , Possession , The Shape of Things , Lakeview Terrace , Death at a Funeral , Some Velvet Morning, Ten x Ten , Dirty Weekend, Full Circle, Billy Billie, and Van Helsing.
ALSO BY N EIL L A B UTE
FICTION
Seconds of Pleasure: Stories
SCREENPLAYS
In the Company of Men
Your Friends and Neighbors
ADAPTATIONS
Miss Julie
Woyzeck
PLAYS
bash: three plays
The Mercy Seat
The Distance From Here
The Shape of Things
Fat Pig
Autobahn
This Is How It Goes
Some Girl(s)
Wrecks and Other Plays
In a Dark Dark House
Reasons to be Pretty
Filthy Talk for Troubled Times and Other Plays
The Break of Noon
Lovely Head and Other Plays
Reasons to be Happy
In a Forest, Dark and Deep
Some Velvet Morning
Things We Said Today: Short Plays and Monologues
The Money Shot
The Way We Get By
Exhibit A
Copyright
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