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LaBute's "Bash" Back in California
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA -- LDS playwright Neil Labute's trio of plays
about Mormons turned bad, "Bash: Latter-day Plays," is being
presented by Santa Ana's Hunger Artists Theatre Company. Reviewer
Eric Marchese admits that LaBute's work is "not the kind of material
mainstream venues would be comfortable with," but says its just right
for a small, edgy, storefront troupe. But he adds that while the
plays could be seen as an indictment of Mormons, " 'Bash' also rings,
though, of the unsettling, unwittingly self-revealing monologue poems
of Robert Browning, which places LaBute in the company of literary
greatness."
Source:
'Bash' is a striking look at tragedy
Orange co CA Register 18Jan02 US CA Orng A2
By Eric Marchese
Hunger Artists has the right troupe and venue to deliver the goods on Neil LaBute's chilling set of dramatic monologues.
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