“Some Velvet Morning is provocation of the most artful kind.”

—The Village Voice

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Betty and Bobby are sister and brother, but they have little in common. She’s a college professor with a prim demeanor, and he’s a carpenter with a foul mouth and violent streak. Yet on the night when Betty urgently needs help to empty her cabin in the woods—the cabin she’s been renting to a male student—she calls on Bobby. In this exhilarating play of secrets and sibling rivalry, Neil LaBute unflinchingly explores the dark territory beyond, as Bobby sneeringly says, “the lies you tell yourself to get by.”

“Very much a meditation on what is and is not true … and also a further manifestation of the longstanding authorial fascination with the close link between deep intimacy and dark violence.”

—Chicago Tribune

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In the companion piece to Neil LaBute’s 2009 Tony-nominated Reasons to be Pretty, Greg, Steph, Carly, and Kent pick up their lives three years later, but in different romantic pairings, as they each search desperately for that elusive object of desire: happiness.

“Mr. LaBute is more relaxed as a playwright than he’s ever been. He is clearly having a good time revisiting old friends … you’re likely to feel the same way … the most winning romantic comedy of the summer, replete with love talk, LaBute-style, which isn’t so far from hate talk …”

—Ben Brantley, The New York Times

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The title play, which had its American premiere at La MaMa in 2012, rivetingly explores the relationship between a nervous older man and a glib young prostitute, as their evening together drives toward a startling conclusion.

Also included is the one-act play The Great War, which looks at a divorcing couple and the ground they need to cross to reach their own end of hostilities; In the Beginning, which was written as a response to the Occupy movement and produced around the world in 2012-13 as part of Theatre Uncut; The Wager, the stage version of the film Double or Nothing starring Adam Brody; the two-handers A Guy Walks Into a Bar, Over the River and Through the Woods, and Strange Fruit; and two powerful new monologues, Bad Girl and The Pony of Love.

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With little to occupy their time other than finding a decent place to hang out—the zoo, the mall, the school parking lot—Darrell and Tim are two American teenagers who lack any direction or purpose in their lives. When Darrell’s suspicion about the faithlessness of his girlfriend is confirmed and Tim comes to her defense, there is nothing to brake their momentum as all three speed toward disaster.