what is the best neil labute play?
what is the best neil labute play?
brainpolice23
Featured Actor Joined: 8/6/06
#1what is the best neil labute play?
Posted: 7/7/07 at 2:31pmi've only read "fat pig" and "some girls." i'm getting a gift for a friend who has already read "fat pig" and deciding between "the shape of things," "the mercy seat," or simply purchasing "fat pig" for her.
#2re: what is the best neil labute play?
Posted: 7/7/07 at 2:34pmMy personal favorite is "The Shape of Things".
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gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#2re: what is the best neil labute play?
Posted: 7/7/07 at 2:35pm
I love Fat Pig but The Shape of Things is a VERY close second.
This is How it Goes is really good as is the Mercy Seat.
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JO125
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#4re: what is the best neil labute play?
Posted: 7/8/07 at 8:13amShape of Things, bash, This is How it Goes
#5re: what is the best neil labute play?
Posted: 7/8/07 at 8:35amProblem with SHAPE is that now everyone knows the joke, which dilutes the play's power a bit. MERCY SEAT is still obscure enough that you can still enjoy the moral quandry. MERCY's dialogue is also, IMHO, a bit better than SHAPE's.
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#6re: what is the best neil labute play?
Posted: 7/8/07 at 9:52ambash, without a doubt. Particularly Medea Redux.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#7re: what is the best neil labute play?
Posted: 7/8/07 at 10:09amI remember when I first saw "The Shape of Things." I had heard nothing about it and was blown away. My FAVORITE by far. It still affects me to this day and I will get into hour long discussions about it with people.
#8re: what is the best neil labute play?
Posted: 7/8/07 at 10:47amI just saw "This Is How It Goes" and I found it to be very disturbing, not among my favorites. But he is definitly thought-provoking.
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BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#9re: what is the best neil labute play?
Posted: 7/8/07 at 1:37pm
The Mercy Seat... i was disgusted at the thought but wow it was so real that it worked.
I have a vendetta against "Shape of Things" i costume designed it 2 falls ago and it was an unpleasent experience.
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