About the Book:

Things We Said Today features the scripts for Neil LaBute's groundbreaking Directv project 10x10 - a series of short films written and directed by LaBute based on ten compelling original monologues, five each for men and women.

Also included are five short plays:

In Pick One, three white guys come up with a way to solve America's problems.

In The Possible, one young woman seduces another's boyfriend for an unexpected reason.

Call Back features an actress and actor who spar about a past encounter that she, unnervingly, remembers much better than he does.

Good Luck (In Farsi) has two actresses pulling out all the stops in a pre-audition psych out, "a pleasingly astringent study in competitiveness and vanity" - The New York Times

In Squeeze Play a father and his son's baseball coach strike a mutually beneficial deal. 

Rounding out the collection are two monologues commissioned as part of Centerstage's "My America" project.

What people say:

"Mr. LaBute is writing some of the freshest and most illuminating dialogue to be heard anywhere these days." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times

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.