Neil LaBute: Plays 1 - Filthy Talk for Troubled Times; The Mercy Seat; Some Girl s; This Is

Filthy Talk for Troubled Time is one of his 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 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, while in This Is How It Goes the breakdown of a seemingly successful marriage is complicated by submerged bigotry and hatred. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Labute, LaBute Neil
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9780571307852
• ISBN: 978-0-571-30785-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts