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Death at a Funeral (DVD)
Keith David, Loretta Devine, Peter Dinklage, Ron Glass, Danny Glover, …
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Neil LaBute directs this Hollywood remake of the 2007 British
ensemble comedy farce. Comedian Chris Rock stars as Aaron, who is
trying to get through his father's funeral in one piece despite the
best efforts of his melodramatic mother (Loretta Devine), his
baby-obsessed wife (Regina Hall) and his playboy brother (Martin
Lawrence). Meanwhile, his father's secret gay lover (Peter
Dinklage) turns up demanding money, and his beautiful cousin (Zoe
Saldana) spends the day dodging her infatuated ex (Luke Wilson)
while trying to look after her fiance (James Marsden) - who
accidentally imbibed a hallucinogen while searching for a
tranquiliser to calm his nerves.
It was so simple, just a few little bits in his diary, files that
he kept in longhand with all his thoughts and wishes and dreams.
Bobby thinks he's simply lending his sister a hand with clearing
out her cottage in the forest. But it's a dark and stormy night and
his sister has a secret. I know it can't be that bad, whatever was
the reason this guy left here in such a hurry... In a Forest, Dark
and Deep by Neil LaBute premiered at the Vaudeville Theatre,
London, in March 2011.
Three years after a difficult breakup, Steph and Greg are wondering
if they can start over again. The trouble is, she's married someone
else and he's started a relationship with her best friend Carly.
Meanwhile, Carly's ex-husband Kent wants her back, and even more so
when he hears about her new romance with his best friend Greg. As
emotions run high, all four find themselves entangled in a web of
hidden agendas and half-truths in their pursuit of a happy life. A
companion piece to the acclaimed Reasons to Be Pretty, Neil
LaBute's Reasons to Be Happy received its UK premiere at Hampstead
Theatre, London, in March 2016.
Belinda and Cody Phipps appear to be a typical Midwestern couple:
teenage sweethearts, children, luxurious home. Typical, except that
Cody is black - 'rich, black, and different', in the words of
Belinda, who finds herself attracted to a former (white) classmate.
As the battle for her affections is waged, Belinda and Cody frankly
doubt the foundation of their initial attraction, opening the door
wide to a swath of bigotry and betrayal. Staged on continually
shifting moral ground that challenges our received notions about
gender, ethnicity, and even love itself, This Is How It Goes
unblinkingly explores the myriad ways in which the wild card of
race is played by both black and white in America.
A movie that drew rave reviews for its fearless and razor-sharp humor, Your Friends and Neighbors is a searing display of today's war between the sexes. Everywhere in the film's screenplay, we encounter the kind of wit used by great Restoration playwrights to expose the hypocrisies in male/female relationships.
Neil LaBute's debut feature, in the company of men, was described by Variety as "a dark, probing, truly disturbing exploration of yuppie angst and male anxieties." In Your Friends and Neighbors, male anxiety is again on show, but this time in a much wider context, revealing the rabid desires of all people—regardless of sex—to serve their own interests at any cost.
How far would you go for love? For art? What concessions would you make? What price would you be willing to pay? Such are the painful questions explored by Neil LaBute in his play and film The Shape of Things—a modern-day telling of the fall of man. After a chance meeting in a museum, Evelyn, a sexy, aggressive artist, and Adam, a shy, insecure student, become embroiled in an intense affair. Before long, it veers into the kind if dangerous, seductive territory that LaBute does best, as Adam, under Evelyn's steady influence, goes to unimaginable lengths to improve his appearance and character. Only in the final and shocking exhibition, which challenges out most deeply entrenched ideas about art and love, does Evelyn reveal her true intentions. This volume contains the original stage script for the play, which was also the basis for the film.
Greg is overheard admitting that his girlfriend Steph is no beauty,
but that he wouldn't change her for the world. She is devastated;
he can't see what he's done wrong. Meanwhile, Greg's friend Kent
alternates between boasting about how gorgeous his wife Carly is
and chasing after a hot new colleague. The final part of Neil
LaBute's 'beauty trilogy' (following The Shape of Things and Fat
Pig) about society's obsession with looks, Reasons to Be Pretty
premiered in the UK at the Almeida Theatre, London, in November
2011. The Shape of Things] is LaBute's thesis on extreme feminine
wiles, as well as a disquisition on how far an artist can go in the
name of art ...Like a chiropractor for the soul, LaBute is looking
for realignment, listening for the crack. (Elle). A heart-warming
tale from America's master misanthrope. (Independent on Fat Pig).
An award-winning play from Neil LaBute that first staged on
Broadway in 2009
In"Seconds of Pleasure," acclaimed award-winning director and
playwright Neil LaBute, brings to the page his cutting humor and
compelling take on the shadowy terrain of the human heart. Best
known for his controversial plays and films, his short fiction has
appeared in"The New Yorker"and"Playboy." Seductive and provocative,
each potent and pithy tale in"Seconds of Pleasure"finds men and
women exploiting -- or at the mercy of -- the hidden fault lines
that separate them: In "Time Share," a woman leaves her family at
their vacation home after discovering her husband in a compromising
situation; a middle-aged man obsesses over a scab on the calf of a
pretty young girl in "Boo-Boo"; and a vain Hollywood actor gets his
comeuppance in "Soft Target." LaBute infuses"Seconds of
Pleasure"with his trademark wit and black humor, and unleashes his
imagination in stories that offer unflinching insight into our very
human shortcomings and impure urges with shocking candor.
Cow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to
stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that
question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman
who happens to be plus sized-and then some. Forced to explain his
new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny)
friends, finally he comes to terms with his own preconceptions of
the importance of conventional good looks. Neil LaBute's sharply
drawn play not only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood
ideals of beauty but boldy questions our own ability to change what
we dislike about ourselves.
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Dracula (Paperback)
Bram Stoker; Adapted by Neil Labute
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R354
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'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
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The Search (Paperback)
Richard Neil Labute
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R331
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Bash (Paperback)
Neil Labute
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R317
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Neil LaBute burst onto the American theater scene in 1989 with his
controversial debut work 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 play--seldom allowed production
by the author since--provides 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 "Helter Skelter," which the Los Angeles
Times called an "indoor Zoo Story" full of "existential whiplash"
and "awash with crackling dialogue"; "The New Testament," a showbiz
satire with a "cutting edge" (Hollywood Reporter) 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
out-and-then-, perhaps, in-the-closet-again lover.
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