false 435324 073940668X 9780739406687 3 1 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/435324.Bash_Latterday_Plays 17542 Neil LaBute 1267 124 2 0 false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 21:24:45 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 13:50:40 -0700 2009
Well, no worries, nothing exciting here. The first scene was ok, though kind of elementary. I could deal with the Iphigenia metaphor. The second scene totally lost me. It was like being stuck making excruciating small talk with totally horrible rich people for half an hour. And are they talking together or separately? It goes back and forth. Does she really need to be there? Any chance they'll kick themselves in the face? Oh sorry, SPOILERS. The third is all oblique rambling. And that is about it.

I don't get why all the "characters" are LDS, for no apparent reason or connection. To say what exactly? Only one of these stories is about institutionally-condoned bigotry, so as a whole it's not really about a church's warped value system. And the other two are more about their Greek allegories. So who knows. LaBute clearly thinks he is writing the edgiest junk in the world, and he wants to make you feel like you are super cool for participating. I don't find those kinds of authorial favors very interesting.]]>