Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Neil LaBute: Plays 2: The Shape of Things; Fat Pig; In a Dark Dark House; In a Forest, Dark and Deep

0/5 ( ratings)

'LaBute takes us to shadowy places we don't like to talk about, sometimes even to think about.' Newsday

Obsession with surface and secrets runs through this second collection of Neil LaBute's work.

The Shape of Things peels back the skin of modern-day relationships to ask how far someone might change themselves for love, or for art. In Fat Pig, a man confronts his friends' - and his own - fixation with Hollywood ideals of beauty when he falls for a 'plus size' young woman. In a Dark Dark House and In a Forest, Dark and Deep are twin tales of sibling conflict. In the first, estranged brothers must reconcile conflicting memories, after one asks for corroboration of childhood abuse. In the second, a man's offer to help his sister clear out her cottage brings a terrible confession into the light.

The Shape of Things
'What initially seems a touching study of student romance develops instead into a passionate discussion about the way art feeds on life.' Daily Telegraph

Fat Pig
'As large as Helen is, the tender heart of the play is easily twice as big.' Variety

In a Dark Dark House
'LaBute toys with expectations and takes pleasure in our discomfort... The play does lead to a pretty dark place - but the ending is not without hope.' Daily Mail

In a Forest, Dark and Deep
'It is billed as being about sibling rivalry, but in fact majors on far deeper, dangerous things: the yearning to be understood, female manipulation, and fascinated male disgust at a sister's lurid sexuality.' The Times

Pages: 384

Format: Paperback

Release: September 07, 2017

ISBN 13: 9780571335718

Neil LaBute: Plays 2: The Shape of Things; Fat Pig; In a Dark Dark House; In a Forest, Dark and Deep

0/5 ( ratings)

'LaBute takes us to shadowy places we don't like to talk about, sometimes even to think about.' Newsday

Obsession with surface and secrets runs through this second collection of Neil LaBute's work.

The Shape of Things peels back the skin of modern-day relationships to ask how far someone might change themselves for love, or for art. In Fat Pig, a man confronts his friends' - and his own - fixation with Hollywood ideals of beauty when he falls for a 'plus size' young woman. In a Dark Dark House and In a Forest, Dark and Deep are twin tales of sibling conflict. In the first, estranged brothers must reconcile conflicting memories, after one asks for corroboration of childhood abuse. In the second, a man's offer to help his sister clear out her cottage brings a terrible confession into the light.

The Shape of Things
'What initially seems a touching study of student romance develops instead into a passionate discussion about the way art feeds on life.' Daily Telegraph

Fat Pig
'As large as Helen is, the tender heart of the play is easily twice as big.' Variety

In a Dark Dark House
'LaBute toys with expectations and takes pleasure in our discomfort... The play does lead to a pretty dark place - but the ending is not without hope.' Daily Mail

In a Forest, Dark and Deep
'It is billed as being about sibling rivalry, but in fact majors on far deeper, dangerous things: the yearning to be understood, female manipulation, and fascinated male disgust at a sister's lurid sexuality.' The Times

Pages: 384

Format: Paperback

Release: September 07, 2017

ISBN 13: 9780571335718

More books from Neil LaBute

The Shape of Things

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Fat Pig

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Bash

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Some Girl(s)

3.4/5 ( ratings)

This is How it Goes

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Autobahn

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Distance from Here: A Play

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Seconds of Pleasure

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love

3.5/5 ( ratings)

reasons to be pretty

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Outstanding Short Plays

3.9/5 ( ratings)

American Political Plays in the Age of Terrorism: Break of Noon; 7/11; Omnium Gatherum; Columbinus; Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Money Shot: A Play

Spectaculum 73: Sechs moderne Theaterstücke

Reasons to Be Pretty Happy: A Play

Fine... I'll Talk With You: Interviews Including Pulitzer, Tony, and Oscar Winning Playwrights and Screenwriters

All The Ways to Say I Love You: Two Plays and One Short Story: Off-Broadway Edition

Ab 11. Schuljahr - The Shape of Things: Textband mit Annotationen

Nurse Betty: The Shooting Script

Reasons to Be Happy

Rate this book!

Write a review?