Filthy Talk for Troubled Times EPUB

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, USA, and populated by a series of everymen (and two beleaguered everywomen), this series of frank exchanges explores the innumerable varieties of American intolerance. A unique snapshot of the times, the playseldom allowed production by the author sinceprovides a compelling look at the early thinking and evolution of one of our great theater artists.

Also in this collection is a series of new, short works, some never before produced. They include ';The New Testament,' a showbiz satire that takes a close look at the perils of color-blind casting, and ';The Furies,' in which a woman helps navigate her brother's breakup with his outand then perhaps in-the-closet againlover.

';There is something of the sinister menace of Pinter in LaBute's work (along with David Mamet, he is very much the heir apparent to that master).' Hedy Weiss,Chicago Sun-Times

';There is no playwright on the planet these days who is writing better than Neil LaBute.' John Lahr,The New Yorker