Location: Edinburgh change

Neil Labute

Sorted by date / most viewed.

Bash

Bash

Utterly convincing and compelling

(4 stars)19 Aug 2011

With no set, no more than a few props, and only the faint murmur of a soundtrack, this show relies solely on its script and actors' abilities: it's lucky that they're both brilliant. Neil LaBute's three monologues, first shown in 1999, unravel moments…

Death at a Funeral

Death at a Funeral

(2 stars)28 May 2010

(15) 91min Whatever happened to Neil LaBute? After mining a unique seam of jet-black social comedy for In The Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, LaBute has constantly treaded water artistically with ill-conceived projects like the…

Neil LaBute Triple Bill

Neil LaBute Triple Bill

26 Jan 2010

‘Like a long distance runner who is asked to fill in for a sprinter at the last minute, you find yourself using a whole different set of muscles that you didn’t know you had.’ Neil LaBute regards short play writing, it seems, as a sort of artistic…

Theatre hitlist

Theatre hitlist

4 Nov 2009

Natura Morte World renowned dance company Derevo unites with St Peterburg theatre mavericks Akhe to create a spectacular premiere, which takes over every inch of the Arches. Arches, Glasgow, Tue 10–Sat 14 Nov. Othello Guy Hollands directs…

Autobahn

Autobahn

29 Oct 2009

‘Savagery, sympathy, pathos and power’ – a distillation, perhaps, of the forces at work in all human relationships. But also Kenny Miller’s summary of the content of Autobahn, the Neil LaBute-penned cycle of plays of which he is currently sharing the…

Lakeview Terrace

Lakeview Terrace

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

THRILLER (15) 110min What could be safer than living next door to a cop? Well just about anything if that cop happens to be played by one of America’s leading black actors. Smug young marrieds Chris (Patrick Wilson) and Lisa (Kerry Washington) move…

The Wicker Man

(3 stars)4 Sep 2006

Love can make us do the strangest things. Just ask Neil Labute, the writer/director of In the Company of Men, Our Friends and Neighbours and The Shape of Things. Labute, for all his inconsistencies, has long been noted as the foremost chronicler of the…

7 articles.

Sorted by date / most viewed.

RSS feed