In a Dark Dark House
Off-Broadway Edition
Labute, Neil
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Two brothers meet on the grounds of a private psychiatric facility. Drew, has been court-confined for observation and has called his older brother, Terry, to corroborate his claim of childhood sexual abuse by a young man from many summers ago. Drew's request releases barely-hidden animosities between the two: Is he using these repressed memories to save himself while smearing the name of his brother's friend? Through pain and acknowledged betrayal, the brothers come to grips with and begin to understand the legacy of abuse, both inside and outside their family home. In a Dark, Dark House is the latest work from Neil LaBute, American theaters great agent provocateur. The play will have its world Premiere in May 2007, Off Broadway at New Yorks MCC Theater.
AUTHOR BIO
Neal LaButes most recent works for the stage include This Is How It Goes (Faber, 2005) and Fat Pig (Faber, 2004), which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off Broadway Play.
BOOK REVIEWS
"There is no playwright on the planet these days who is writing better than Neil LaBute." John Lahr, The New Yorker
"The most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today." David Amsden, New York magazine
"[LaButes] view of modern men and women is unsparing . . . [He] is holding up a pitiless mirror to ourselves. We may not like what we see, but we cant deny thatif only in some dark corner of our soulsit is there." Jacques le Sourd, The Journal News (White Plains, New York)
"Like a chiropractor of the soul, LaBute is looking for realignment, listening for a crack." John Istel, Elle
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0865479836
ISBN(13-digit): 9780865479838
Dewey Decimal: 812
Library of Congress: 2007937702
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 86
