Filthy Talk for Troubled Times

A collection of early work and new short pieces from “the bad boy of American theater” ( Time ). Neil LaBute burst onto the American theater scene in 1989 with his controversial debut Filthy Talk for Troubled Times . Set in a barroom in Anytown, USA, and populated by a series of everymen (and two beleaguered everywomen), this series of frank exchanges explores the innumerable varieties of American intolerance. A unique snapshot of the times, the play—seldom allowed production by the author since