Reasons to be Happy: A Play

by Neil LaBute

Overview

Reasons to Be Happy features the same four characters--Greg, Steph, Carly, and Kent--picking up their lives three years later, but in different romantic pairings as they each search desperately for that elusive object of desire: happiness.  New York City's MCC Theater will produce the world premiere in May 2013.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781468308488
Publisher:	ABRAMS
Publication date:	05/09/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	914,135
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Neil LaBute's plays include bash, Reasons to Be Happy, The Money Shot, and The Way We Get By. His films include In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Shape of Things, Some Velvet Morning, and Dirty Weekend. Television includes Billy & Billie and Van Helsing. He is a Lucille Lortel Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee and a recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Mr. LaBute is writing some of the freshest and most illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere these days." —Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"Neil LaBute is the most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today." —New York Magazine

"The play twists continually, and the truth is always one twist away. LaBute is such a skillful writer—edgy, funny, outrageous . . . " —Financial Times

Editorial Reviews

"Mr. LaBute is writing some of the freshest and most illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere these days." —Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"Neil LaBute is the most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today." —New York Magazine

"The play twists continually, and the truth is always one twist away. LaBute is such a skillful writer—edgy, funny, outrageous . . . " —Financial Times

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