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Autobahn A Short-Play Cycle

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  1w, 1m, 12 any gender (adult)

Collection Includes:
Funny, Bench Seat, All Apologies, Merge, Long Division, Road Trip and Autobahn. Please see individual entries for synopses.

Autobahn A Short-Play Cycle

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 1m, 12 any gender (adult)

Details

Summary

In Autobahn, Neil LaBute's provocative collection of one-act plays set within the confin's of the front seat, he investigates the tentative apprehension that surrounds the steering wheel. Each of these seven vignettes explore the ethos of perception and relationship - from a make-out session gone awry, to a kidnapping thinly disguised as a road trip, a reconnaissance mission involving the rescue of a Nintendo 64 to a daughter's long ride home after her release from rehab. The result is an unsettling montage that gradually reveals the'scabrous force of words left unsaid while illuminating the delicate interplay between intention and morality, capturing the essence of Middle America and the myriad paths which cross its surface.


  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting

    The front seat of a car

Media

"Neil LaBute is the first dramatist since David Mamet and Sam Shepard - since Edward Albee, actually - to mix sympathy and savagery, pathos and power." - Donald Lyons

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Authors

Neil LaBute

Neil LaBute received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and also attended the Sundance Institute’s Playwrights Lab. His films include: “In the ...
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