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    Filthy Talk for Troubled Times: And Other Plays

    By Neil LaBute

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    A collection of early work and new short pieces from “the bad boy of American theater” (Time).
     
    Neil LaBute burst onto the American theater scene in 1989 with his controversial debut Filthy Talk for Troubled Times. Set in a barroom in Anytown, USA, and populated by a series of everymen (and two beleaguered everywomen), this series of frank exchanges explores the innumerable varieties of American intolerance. A unique snapshot of the times, the play—seldom allowed production by the author since—provides a compelling look at the early thinking and evolution of one of our great theater artists.
     
    Also in this collection is a series of new, short works, some never before produced. They include “The New Testament,” a showbiz satire that takes a close look at the perils of color-blind casting, and “The Furies,” in which a woman helps navigate her brother’s breakup with his out—and then perhaps in-the-closet again—lover.
     
    “There is something of the sinister menace of Pinter in LaBute’s work (along with David Mamet, he is very much the heir apparent to that master).” —Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
     
    “There is no playwright on the planet these days who is writing better than Neil LaBute.” —John Lahr, The New Yorker
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 10, 2010
    ISBN9781593763732
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    Filthy Talk for Troubled Times: And Other Plays
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    Neil LaBute

    Neil Labute—an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker—is the author of plays including The Shape of Things, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig, and the Tony Award-nominated Reasons to Be Pretty. He has written and directed films including In the Company of Men (starring Aaron Eckhart), The Shape of Things (starring  Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz), and the 2006 American adaptation of The Wicker Man (starring Nicholas Cage).

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      The plays in Wrecks are not big production plays. Some are basically monologues. Most have casts of one or two. Sets are nonexistent or spare. There are no intricate stage directions. One setting is described as “an empty stage or a quiet coffee shop (you be the judge).” The power is in the words.These short plays are about turning the tables, defying expectations. Some are intended to shock; all are provocative and tend to stay with you after reading them.