Neil LaBute

• Apr-2003
• / General Fiction
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His films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors both gained critical renown for their biting satire and caustic wit. Now, with The Distance from Here, he has written his most riveting play yet, an intense look at the dark side of Ameri...

• Sep-2005
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Stories from the award-winning director and playwright. “Labute’s smart, edgy offering delivers pleasures well beyond the time frame his title suggests.” -- BooklistIn Seconds of Pleasure, Neil LaBute brings to the page his cutting humor a...

• Jun-2010
• / Literary
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A collection of early work and new short pieces from “the bad boy of American theater” (Time). Neil LaBute burst onto the American theater scene in 1989 with his controversial debut Filthy Talk for Troubled Times. Set in a barroom in Anytown, U...

• Dec-2013
• / General Fiction
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Velvet is enjoying a relaxing morning at home when Fred arrives on the doorstep of her New York City brownstone, suitcases in tow. He tells her he’s finally left his wife to be with her, news to Velvet since she hasn’t seen him in years and is no...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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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 includ...

• Oct-2014
• / General Fiction
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It’s been years since either one’s had a hit, but the latest movie by a hot-shot European director could change that. The night before filming a big scene (that will undoubtedly assure them a spot back on the pop culture radar), Karen, her partne...