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Things We Said Today: Short Plays and Monologues
Things We Said Today: Short Plays and Monologues
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Author: Neil LaBute Publisher: The Overlook Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 167 Pub. Date: 2014 ISBN-10: 1468309773 ISBN-13: 9781468309775
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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
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