About the Play:

Bash contains three one-act plays by Neil LaBute. A trio of unforgettable personal accounts that marked his return to the New York stage after ten years.

In Medea Redux, a woman cells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her grade school English teacher. (Cast: 1 woman)

In Iphigenia in Orem, a Utah businessman confides in a stranger in a Las Vegas hotel room, confessing a most chilling crime. (Cast: 1 man)

In A Gaggle of Saints, a young Mormon couple separately recounts the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City. (Cast: 1 woman, 1 man)

With the success of has first two films, In The Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, writer-director Neil LaBute was hailed as a first-rate dramatic talent with a caustic wit reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick. The three plays in this volume are unblinking portraits of the complexities of evil in everyday life, exhibiting this writer-director's raw lyrical intensity.

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.