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This Is How It Goes
This Is How It Goes
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Author: Neil LaBute Publisher: Faber & Faber Format: Softcover # of Pages: 112 Pub. Date: 2005 ISBN-10: 0571211550 ISBN-13: 9780571211555 Cast Size: 1 woman, 2 men
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About
the Play:
This Is How It Goes is a full-length drama by Neil
LaBute. Belinda and Cody are a typical young American couple.
Typical ... except Cody is black and Belinda is white. All appears to
be going well until she becomes attracted to a former classmate who
is also white. As the men battle for her affections, the door is
opened to a world of bigotry and betrayal that was apparently just
below the surface all the time.
This Is How It Goes is about about a seemingly perfect
couple and the intricacies of marriage. Belinda and Cody Phipps
"appear" to be the typical middle-class, interracial
success story: teenage sweethearts now married with children and a
luxurious home. Typical except that Cody is in almost every respect
an outsider – "rich, black, and different," in the words
of Belinda, who finds herself attracted to a white former classmate
who has recently returned to town. As the battle for her affections
is waged against a backdrop as seemingly serene as a Norman Rockwell
painting, Belinda and Cody frankly question the foundation of their
initial attraction, opening the door wide to a swath of bigotry,
deception, and betrayal. Staged on continually shifting moral ground
that challenges our received notions about gender, ethnicity, and
even love itself, This Is How It Goes is also about truth and
the many versions of it that we offer up to different people.
This Is How It Goes premiered in 2005 at The Public Theater
off-Broadway in New York City.
Cast: 1 woman, 2 men
What people say:
"Neil LaBute is
the first dramatist since David Mamet and Sam Shepard – since
Edward Albee, actually – to mix sympathy and savagery, pathos and
power." — New York Post
"Neil LaBute
[is] our American Aesop, a mad moral fabulist serving stiff tonic for
our country's sin-sick souls." — American Theatre
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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