Neil LaBute, Plays 2

by Neil LaBute

  Also by Neil LaBute

  plays

  PLAYS ONE

  (Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, The Mercy Seat, This Is How It Goes, Some Girl(s), Helter Skelter, A Second of Pleasure)

  BASH: LATTERDAY PLAYS

  THE SHAPE OF THINGS

  THE DISTANCE FROM HERE

  THE MERCY SEAT

  SOME GIRL(S)

  FAT PIG

  THIS IS HOW IT GOES

  LAND OF THE DEAD and HELTER SKELTER

  IN A DARK DARK HOUSE

  IN A FOREST, DARK AND DEEP

  REASONS TO BE PRETTY

  REASONS TO BE HAPPY

  screenplays

  IN THE COMPANY OF MEN

  YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS

  fiction

  SECONDS OF PLEASURE

  Copyright

  First published in this collection in 2017

  by Faber and Faber Ltd

  Bloomsbury House

  74–77 Great Russell Street

  London WC1B 3DA

  This collection © Neil LaBute, 2017

  The Shape of Things

  First published in 2002 by Faber and Faber Limited

  © Neil LaBute, 2002

  Fat Pig

  First published in the USA by Faber and Faber inc., 2007

  © Neil LaBute, 2004, 2016

  In a Dark Dark House

  First published in the USA by Faber and Faber Inc.

  © Neil LaBute, 2005, 2007

  In a Forest, Dark and Deep

  First published in 2011 by Faber and Faber Limited

  © Neil LaBute, 2011

  The right of Neil LaBute to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  All rights whatsoever in these plays are strictly reserved and applications to perform them should be made in writing, before rehearsals begin, to Joyce Ketay, The Gersh Agency, 41 Madison Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA. No performance may be given unless a licence has first been obtained

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  ISBN 978–0–571–33572–5