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The Way We Get By
The Way We Get By
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Author: Neil LaBute Publisher: Overlook Press # of Pages: 96 Pub. Date: 2015 ISBN-10: 1468312081 ISBN-13: 9781468312089
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About the Play:
The Way We Get By is a full-length drama by Neil
LaBute. This two-hander follows the aftermath of a one
night stand between two guests who wake up together following a
drunken wedding reception and share a very awkward morning-after
conversation about sex, society, and how much they really care about
what other people think.
The Way We Get By is set in New York. Middle of the night.
Now. Meet Beth and Doug: two people who have no problem getting dates
with their partners of choice. What they do have, however, is a very
awkward encounter after spending one hot night together following a
drunken wedding reception they both attended. They wake up to a
blurry morning where the rules of attraction, sex, and society are
waiting for them before their first cup of coffee, leading them to to
question how much they really know about each other and how much they
care about what other people think. Slyly profound and irresistibly
passionate, Neil LaBute blends dark comedy with romantic
optimism in his audacious tale of a very modern romance – a sharp,
sexy, fresh look at love and lust and the whole damn thing.
The Way We Get By premiered in 2015 and enjoyed an extended
run at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre in New York City.
Cast: 1 woman, 1 man
What people say:
"[LaBute] has done something
unique to his brand of well-established playwriting genre; that is of
the darkly cynical variety. The Way We Get By is
a good play with an important conundrum (which I won't ruin for you),
with a positive and hopeful ending, (that much I will ruin for you).
It actually feels good in our ever wary world to see that problems,
no matter how challenging, can be worked out and realized without the
usual, ‘Maybe I should have slit my wrists long ago,' attitudes of
characters with complex lives. After all, everything is complex these
days." — Huffington Post
"Sexy, starry, dangerously
irresistible! …[Neil LaBute]
relishes the art of thwarting expectations."
— The New York Times
"One-night
stands often produce repercussions, but few are as emotionally
fraught as the one depicted in Neil LaBute's
[The Way We Get By]… the playwright's gift for
amusing banter is very much on display." — Hollywood
Reporter
"[Neil LaBute's]
sometimes brutal wit has long been accompanied by an equally fierce
moral curiosity…if we see Doug and Beth's struggle in the context
of a world where everyone can seem to be in everyone else's business
– especially when it's trivial – the focus is on two individuals
trying to assess their own capacity for courage." — USA
Today
About the Playwright:
Neil LaBute is an
award-winning American playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter. His
plays include bash, Reasons to be Pretty (Tony Award nominated for
best play), In a Forest, Dark and Deep, and Reasons to be Happy. His
films include 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, Some Velvet Morning, and Dirty Weekend. He is a 2013
recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters.
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