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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 Cast Size: 1 female, 1 male
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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. They meet at a drunken wedding
reception and end up having sex at an apartment Beth shares with her
control freak room mate. Unable to sleep, Doug gets up in the middle
of the night and inadvertently wakes Beth to a blurry morning where
the rules of attraction, sex, and society are waiting for them before
their first cup of coffee. The two begin some humorously awkward
conversation that veers toward their love lives before Beth, wanting
to get intimate again, meets with resistance from Doug. After she
probes as to why Doug doesn't want to jump back into bed with her, he
reveals not only his feelings but a surprising bond they share from
the past. Fast-moving, sexy and surprisingly poignant The Way We
Get By is a sharp, sexy, fresh look at love, relationships, and the awkward moments in between.
The Way We Get By premiered in 2015 at Second Stage Theatre
and enjoyed an extended run Off-Broadway in New York City. It has
been a popular and a
favourite play
for regional theatre productions ever
since
Cast: 1 female, 1 male
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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