{"product_id":"9781468314045","title":"Things We Said Today: Short Plays and Monologues","description":"\u003cp\u003eNeil LaBute is one of America’s most provocative and lauded playwrights, and his darkly exhilarating talent is on glorious view in this new collection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cem\u003eThings We Said Today\u003c\/em\u003e features the scripts for Neil LaBute’s groundbreaking Directv project 10x10—a series of short films written and directed by LaBute based on ten compelling original monologues, five each for men and women.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Also included are five short plays displaying the power and scope of Neil LaBute’s creative vision. In \u003cem\u003ePick One\u003c\/em\u003e, three white guys come up with a way to solve America’s problems; in \u003cem\u003eThe Possible\u003c\/em\u003e one young woman seduces another’s boyfriend for an unexpected reason. \u003cem\u003eCall Back\u003c\/em\u003e features an actress and actor who spar about a past encounter that she, unnervingly, remembers much better than he does. \u003cem\u003eGood Luck (In Farsi)\u003c\/em\u003e, “a pleasingly astringent study in competitiveness and vanity” (\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e) has two actresses pulling out all the stops in a preaudition psych out; and in \u003cem\u003eSqueeze Play\u003c\/em\u003e a father and his son’s baseball coach strike a mutually beneficial deal. Rounding out the collection are two monologues commissioned as part of Centerstage’s “My America” project.","brand":"The Overlook Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135621513456,"sku":"9781468314045","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781468314045_p0.jpg?v=1769892713","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781468314045","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}