Neil LaBute’s recent work includes Some Girls (West End) and This Is How It Goes (Donmar Warehouse), and the films The Wicker Man, In the Company of Men and The Shape of Things. Patricia Benecke recently directed Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur’an, which toured the UK in 2006 after a sell-out run at The Bush Theatre.

written by Neil LaBute
directed by Patricia Benecke

Evening performances start at 8pm; Saturday matinees at 3pm. For further details see calendar.

For signed performance and audio described performance dates, see calendar.

Season Offer:
FOUR SHOWS FOR £50 (£35 concs)
TWO SHOWS FOR £25 (£18 concs)
(Must be booked together. Telephone bookings only on 020 7610 4224)

Cast
Patrick Driver
Ruth Gemmell
John Kirk

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Creative
Neil LaBute Writer
Neil LaBute received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the Royal Court Theatre.

Films include: In the Company of Men (New York Critics’ Circle Award for Best First Feature, Filmmakers’ Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession, and The Shape of Things, a film adaptation of his play by the same title.  His latest film Wicker Man, starring Nicolas Cage, was released in September 2006.

Plays include: bash: latter-day plays, written by LaBute and staged in New York in 1999 and London in 2000, both directed by Joe Mantello; The Shape of Things which LaBute wrote and directed for London and New York in 2001; The Distance From Here, written by LaBute, which ran at the Almeida Theater in London in spring 2002 (directed by David Leveaux) and in New York in spring 2004 (directed by Michael Greif); and The Mercy Seat, written and directed by LaBute in New York in fall 2002. In spring 2004, the MCC Theater performed five of his one-act plays, collectively titled Autobahn. MCC staged LaBute’s play Fat Pig, directed by Jo Bonney, in fall 2004.  In spring 2005, his play This Is How It Goes premiered at New York’s Public Theater, directed by George C. Wolfe.  In May of that year, the play debuted at The Donmar Warehouse in London, directed by Moises Kauffman.  Also in May 2005, LaBute’s play Some Girl(s) premiered on London’s West End, directed by David Grindley.  In November 2005, he directed the premiere of his one-man, one-act play Wrecks in Cork, Ireland.  In May 2006, Some Girl(s) had its New York debut at the Lucille Lortel theater.  MCC Theater staged and Jo Bonney directed.  In October 2006, LaBute once again directed Wrecks, this timefor the New York premiere at the Public Theater. In June of 2007, MCC premiered his latest play, In a Dark Dark House, directed by Carolyn Cantor.

LaBute is the author of several fictional pieces that have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, and Playboy among others.  A collection of his short stories was published by Grove/Atlantic in October 2004.

directed by Patricia Benecke
designed by Sara Perks
lighting by John harris
music by Nikola Kodjabashia

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Reviews
“An incisive production by Patricia Benecke with mesmerizing acting from John Kirk, Patrick Driver and, especially, Ruth Gemmell… This great double bill is one of frightening timeliness” Independent
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"As always with LaBute, it’s the precision of expression, the needle in the dialogue that pins your ears back. LaBute is both like Harold Pinter and not like him at all. And he has an uncanny instinct for inflating a dramatic crisis at its nerviest point of contact." Whatsonstage
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“LaBute brings a chilling touch of classic Greek tragedy to our own times” Evening Standard
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