Bash

Description

Neil Labute's Bash is a collection of three darkly brilliant one-act plays:In Medea Redux, a woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her junior high-school English teacher.In Iphigenia In Orem, a Utah businessman confides in a stranger in a Las Vegas hotel room, confessing to an especially chilling crime.In A Gaggle of Saints, a young mormon couple separately recount the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City.All three are unblinking portraits of the evils that are abroad in everyday life; each is distinguished by the raw and yet lyrical intensity that has become Neil Labute's signature.

Neil LaBute was born in 1963 in Detroit, Michigan. He is the writer/director of the films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, and author of the stage-plays Bash, The Shape of Things (which he also adapted for the screen) and, most recently, The Mercy Seat. He has also directed the feature films Nurse Betty and Possession, the latter adapted from the novel by A. S. Byatt.