If you want me, need me, long for me as I do for you, my hated, hateful dear, you know where to find me. Out there, somewhere. Lost in space, on the world wide web. [email protected].

I see you not looking at me. Head turned. Tears in your eyes. I so wish I knew what you were thinking but then again, I never really did, did I, so why would it matter now? And it doesn’t. All that matters is you know the truth. Where we stand. And the truth of the matter is I’m here now. I am here and I’m not going away, no, I’m not. Not ever, my dear.

At least not for a very, very, very long time.

ALSO BY NEIL LABUTE AND AVAILABLE FROM THE OVERLOOK PRESS

Neil LaBute burst onto the American theater scene with the premiere of BASH in 1999 in a wildly praised production that featured Calista Flockhart, Paul Rudd, and Ron Eldard. These three provocative one-act plays examine the complexities of evil in everyday life and exhibit LaBute’s signature raw lyrical intensity. Ablaze with the muscular dialogue and searing artistry that immediately established him as a major playwright, BASH is enduringly brilliant—classic and essential Neil LaBute.

In MEDEA REDUX, a young woman relates her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her high school English teacher; in IPHIGENIA IN OREM, a businessman confides to a stranger in a Las Vegas hotel room about a chilling crime; and in A GAGGLE OF SAINTS, a young couple separately recounts the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City,

This new edition has been produced with dual covers featuring two images, a man and a woman, from Robert Longo’s acclaimed “Men in the Cities” series and includes an illuminating preface by Neil LaBute who for the first time limns the plays’ full history, including the early productions and controversies during his student days.

“Mr. LaBute shows not only a merciless ear for contemporary speech but also a poet’s sense of recurring, slyly graduated imagery … darkly engrossing.”

—Ben Brantley, The New York Times

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ALSO BY NEIL LABUTE AND AVAILABLE FROM THE OVERLOOK PRESS

Neil LaBute has earned international acclaim for his provocative body of work for the stage. His bold vision is amply evident in this new collection of daring and stylishly realized short plays and monologues.

In the title play, Exhibit ‘A’, an artist pushes the boundaries of his work to a previously untouched frontier, challenging the very definition of “art.” 10K explores the territory where fantasy and desire merge, as a man and woman share secrets while traversing a suburban jogging path. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush is a tense confrontation between two men in a park. In Happy Hour, a guy and a gal meet cute in a bar.